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byPowercntrl ( 458442 ) writes:
Is there really any reason we can't just make pennies out of plastic instead? Personally, I haven't used cash in ages anyway so I'm really neither here nor there on running out of pennies, but it seems like if the problem is just that they cost too much to manufacture, make them out of something cheaper.
byKisai ( 213879 ) writes:
Just don't make pennies at all. Canada already got rid of theirs entirely. Japan doesn't make 1 Yen coins except for non-circulating mint sets. Australia and South Africa got rid of theirs.
The only reason the penny remains in circulation at all is because the US likes dragging their heels on things. Still no Metric system, Still no Health Care. What is with Americans wanting to be known as the land of the ideocracy (sic.)
While I may disagree on a lot of the moronic EO's he's spitting out, getting rid of the Penny is a no-brainer. The mere fact that it isn't accepted in change/vending machines, and change machines don't give it out, is enough reason to get rid of it. People end up collecting pounds of pennies just to bring it into a bank to have counted by a machine the BANK owns.
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bydrinkypoo ( 153816 ) writes:
Ideocracy is what we want, idiocracy is what we've got.
byretchdog ( 1319261 ) writes:
why is it we have a plebicide every few years but there are still plebs around???
bydryeo ( 100693 ) writes:
One of the big reasons for America still having pennies is the zinc lobby.
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