[Fai Mao]

Or, revalue money so that pennies have value?

[PGalt]

Very interesting. Thanks for posting.

[Responsibility2nd]

If the penny goes away, will prices be rounded up or down to the nearest nickel?

[dp0622]

A penny takes 3 cents to make.

That’s bad :)

[uranium penguin]

pennies are good for quite a while.

why not just run them every X years?

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Simply punch them out of cardboard with “One Cent” written on both sides.
Old pizza boxes could be the standard.

[Strict9]

cut all welfare. Not one dime. You don’t get a che k for being blind, you don’t get a check for being homeless, you don’t get a check for being retarded, you don’t get a check for being an immigrant etc. Nothing. Take care of yourself, go to your family or a church.

[airborne]

Keep the penny. Just replace the current materials with recycled materials.

Win-win.

[larrytown]

Penny AND the half-dollar.

[teeman8r]

stop minting them and let the pennies that are out there ride.

[subterfuge]

Nickel for your thoughts?

[Dick Bachert]

NEXT ON THE LIST...THE FRAUD KNOWN AS THE "FEDERAL RESERVE"!

[Obadiah]

Am I the only one who hates having any loose change around? I put quarters, dimes, and nickels in my car’s console in the off-chance I need it for a random parking meter. But that’s it. I neve carry change around. To be honest, I’ve probably thrown a penny or two in the garbage. I pretty much never have any cash on me either.

[Reddy]

NOOOOoooooooooo!

[Political Junkie Too]

What would Lincoln say???

Put Lincoln on the nickel and drop Jefferson?

-PJ

[bobcat62]

DOGE needs to take aim at the H1B scam.

[philippa]

Make pennies out of cheaper materials, like plastic.

[HYPOCRACY]

How will I pay my taxes?

[DennisR]

Yikes - very small potatoes. Federal government civil service workers need to be fired - 50% would be a great start.

[DesertRhino]

A penny today is roughly the same value as if we had a 1/100th of a cent coin in 1915.

In 1915 Henry Ford paid his workers 5 dollars a day, and had a 6 day work week. That would be 30 dollars a week. Hypothetically every two weeks, that worker could go down and exchange that cash for three shiny new twenty dollar one ounce US Mint gold coins.

essentially, that worker was getting paid 202,800 a year in purchasing power. That is how much purchasing power the Federal Reserve and central banker have stolen from you. With today’s 37,500 median income, todays worker could buy 3 gold coins every two months.

It’s amazing what losing 1 or 2% inflation for a hundred years does.