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:marseyravesuperspeed: :marseyravesuperspeed: Trump orders US to ditch the penny after decades of complaints :marseyravesuperspeed: :marseyravesuperspeed:

https://apnews.com/article/trump-penny-treasury-mint-c4510debefe6cbfb0dd908d8fed7eb50

Faux News drama in the comments

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https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1imit4g/trump_instructs_treasury_to_halt_penny_production/

https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1im9gpd/trump_orders_treasury_to_halt_minting_new_pennies/

https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1im972o/trump_takes_aim_at_wasteful_government_spending/

https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1im6dei/trump_directs_treasury_secretary_scott_bessent_to/

https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1im4m7z/trump_orders_treasury_secretary_to_stop_minting/

https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1ilxn7n/trump_orders_treasury_secretary_to_stop_minting/

https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1ilxi38/trump_says_he_has_directed_us_treasury_to_stop/

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https://scored.co/p/19AKhfFK8v/trump-orders-an-end-to-the-penny/c

https://scored.co/p/19AKd8oBf6/make-no-cents-trump-orders-end-t/c

https://scored.co/p/19AKd7gc9m/for-far-too-long-the-united-stat/c

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https://lemmy.world/post/25412503?scrollToComments=true

https://lemmy.ca/post/38873950

https://lemmy.world/post/25409964?scrollToComments=true

https://lemmy.world/post/25378488?scrollToComments=true

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42996537

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These anti-penny comments prove dramatards are ultimately just redditors. Nobody even uses cash except with drug dealers and hookers, and those people aren't giving you change back in coins. I know nobody here has any dignity left but pretend you do and recognize it's trashy for a nation to not pay for the complete set of coins. "Oh no, children will get little pictures of Lincoln so they can learn math and develop respect for the dollar and make wishes in fountains." Maybe you fricks are unlucky but half my taxable income last year came from fountain wishes.

"Hurr durr the opportunity cost, if a million people waste three seconds each dealing with pennies, that's three million seconds lost for the economy!" No it isn't, being three seconds late to work does not mean you do three seconds less work and everyone with a job understands that. Teaching normies about opportunity cost has done more harm than good.

If you really want to save money just encourage people to bring in the massive reserves of pennies they keep in jars at home. Chemically clean them for a fraction of the price of minting new ones, then recirculate them as "throwback pennies." Some of them will be severely faded but that won't matter because nobody can profit from counterfeiting pennies.

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I throw sacajaweah dollars at strippers personally

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That's called making it hail.

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I threw loonies at the peelers for the first time in years last Christmas. It was as fun as I remember.

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https://i.rdrama.net/images/17392735542isGbe_lvkhxxw.webp

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You're fricking r-slurred if you think cash is only for hookers and drug dealers

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Well, yeah, the r in rDrama stands for Reddit

And they can just print pictures of pennies lol

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I pay at my local cafe with cash so I don't have to press No on the tip machine. Then I put a tip in their jar so they actively see I donated.

Tipping on the turned-around ipad is 100% cucked. You may as well not even have tipped.

Tipping is a social strategy, it's not just for you to feel heckin wholesome. That's why george costanza was right: they have to see it. :marseyishygddt:

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without pennies, what the heck am I supposed to shove up my butt? fricking DIMES?!

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Nickels and dimes. That's where the idiom is from.

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Dimes could get stuck, Trump is literally killing people.

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:marseyagree: This is why Trump should reintroduce the half-cent, and perhaps be so bold as to finally complete our coinage by minting the mill.

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>half-cent minted

>it's made of shiny fake-gold

>it's got trumps face on it

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We should do this anyway in case AI sparks runaway growth deflation.

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>half my taxable income last year came from fountain wishes.

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More like 80% but don't tell the feds. :marseyhush:

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just encourage people to bring in the massive reserves of pennies they keep in jars at home

encourage them how

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1739248202Wk9594Bb2Ls_ew.webp

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Pay CoinStar to do a fee-free month then run a psyop paying streamers and columnists to talk about all the money they made returning their loose change.

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Thanks for adding your 2 5 cents.

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