I agree. You should be charged $290,000.00 for your house instead of $281,000.00. In fact, I'll take the extra $9,000 you paid just so you can buy things at the prices you apparently want..

What? You want that rule to apply only for low priced items? What counts as a low price? Let's get a committee together and have them come up with a pricing scheme that's at least half as impressive as the tax code.

Of course, this will simplify advertising and teaching kids money values. We could simplify all prices to $x.yEz, which could then be simplified to $xyz.

Then we could use the resistor color code to specify prices. Manufacturers could spend millions making their box complement the colors on the price tag (which would result in price fixing - no store would put brown on our box)! Our money could be replaced with paper that has 3 stripes of color on it!