Faux News drama in the comments
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https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1ilxi38/trump_says_he_has_directed_us_treasury_to_stop/
President Trump's order to freeze penny production is a perfect example of what makes this administration different.
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) February 10, 2025
Penny production has been pointless for years. Everyone knew it, but nobody else cared enough to actually act. Sure, it's "only" $179 million a year. But looks at…
🚨REPORTER: "The penny is gone, is the nickel next!?"
— Autism Capital 🧩 (@AutismCapital) February 11, 2025
Trump's reaction is great 💀 pic.twitter.com/6lo0DBpBgq
President Trump has ordered a stop to penny production. Good!
— John Stossel (@JohnStossel) February 10, 2025
I covered the stupidity of government losing money to make pennies years ago: pic.twitter.com/GreLFnVU7e
Trump's "pragmatic" argument for ending penny is a trial balloon for his technocrat billionaires who want to take us into a de facto CBDC
— David Knight Show LIVE 9am EST, M-F (@libertytarian) February 10, 2025
"CBDC" label doesn't matter
Transactional financial privacy does
Digital "money" is a surveillance trap, but it's fine if Trump does it
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Watch Redditors who watched "why the heckin penny is hecking losing money" soytube essayslop with narration and hecking smooth infographic visuals suddenly change their tune
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Reddit take is "this is good but yet another abuse of EOs because this is explicitly and constitutionally congress's realm"
Imagine if Trump made cash illegal and forced us all to use cards
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Congress authorized but did not mandate minting the penny.
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Your mother authorized but did not mandate my peepee and yet look at where we are
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I bet you go on a lot of "mandates" u fukken queer
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Which is especially ridiculous because this is exactly the sort of thing executive orders are supposed to be used for; giving a federal agency direction on how to go about fulfilling their function. He can absolutely tell them to stop minting a given denomination. What he can't do, and hasn't tried to do, is pull that denomination from circulation entirely.
This isn't even controversial. The U.S. Code is clear.
If Scott Bessent says no new pennies are required to meet national need, the Treasury can immediately stop minting them, no act of Congress necessary. It wouldn't be a permanent decision, and the next Secretary of the Treasury could reverse it, but why would he? Everyone knows pennies have overstayed their welcome. !nonchuds are only pretending otherwise because wingcucks are incapable of agreeing with "the enemy" about literally anything.
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Noooo you can't ban the pennyrino!!
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