Another idea straight from the liberal stinktank is the idea we should get rid of our American pennies!
Since 1793 the United States has been making pennies, its an American tradition!
We all grew up with the penny, and now the goddamn liberals want to get rid of it all together.
What the hell am I supposed to do with my big jug of pennies if they decide the penny isn't worth anything anymore?
Do I turn em in for Pinko points down at the bank before they take away all our US currency and send half of us off to the Gulag?
I'm sorry but my presidents name is Donald J Trump, and I won't abide by the communist liberal agenda. If they want my pennies they'll have to take em by force.
Using this calculator, the value of 1 penny in 1913 (as far back as the calculator goes) would have the value of $0.25 cents today: data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl
In 1793 that penny would have been worth more. There was no use to create a coin with a value of a fraction of a penny back then, why have such a low valued equivalent today?
Parker Ortiz
Is the us really getting rid of pennies?
Samuel Roberts
>What the hell am I supposed to do with my big jug of pennies if they decide the penny isn't worth anything anymore? Take them to a bank and exchange them for nickels, dimes, quarters, or dollars.
Xavier Gonzalez
800000000 pennys minted by the jew.
Nathaniel White
Pennies actually cost more than $.01 to make, so for every single penny we make, we're losing money as a nation.
Owen Jones
It works well in canada. They just round it up or down. >be leaf >go to gas station >put in 2 cents worth of fuel >replace nozzle repeat until tank full >free tank of gas >get jailed for lookin at muslim wrong Its worked well so far desu senpai
Jaxon Gonzalez
>losing money as a nation. As OP said, an American tradition.
Levi Myers
You had me until
>my presidents name is Donald J Trump
Knowing that you back a traitorous neocon cuck leading us all to extinction, I'm thus compelled to question everything you say. You could be jewish or black instead of human.
Lincoln Lee
Pennies cost more to manufacture than they're actually worth. Nickels, too.
Why do we continue to manufacture worthless currency? The answer probably has something to do with (((who))) makes a shitload of money selling zinc to the U.S. Mints.
Thomas Nelson
What will I put in the penny press machines?!
Jaxson Ramirez
how about the jews stop de-valuing our currency?
Nathaniel Davis
Don't do it! It's a slippery slope! They took away the leafs pennies and now we're all fucking dogs!
Levi Sanchez
The United States used to mint half-pennies until 1857.
Joshua Bell
No, a cent was worth a cent until we went off the gold standard.
Austin Moore
Legally, the lowest denomination of U.S. Currency is the "mil", worth 1/1000 of a U.S. Dollar.
Mils were never manufactured in coin form, BUT we still evidence of them today--- in GASOLINE PRICES.
Why do they charge 9 extra mils instead of just raising the price by one penny? Who knows, it's probably the Jews up to their usual shekel-grubbing kikery.
Michael Young
There would be a grace period before pennies are no longer usable, you will have time to trade in that jug of $5 worth of pennies.
Jordan Evans
>get jailed for lookin at muslim wrong
Carter Edwards
Lol.
But yea it's not bad. I still have thousands rolled sitting around. No point in giving them back. I'm sure they'll be useful for something someday
Matthew Thompson
They should get rid of it.
Brayden Parker
Bullshit, even Obama was against getting rid of the penny because even though doing so would save money, it's too little to be worth having to pass through congress.
You know they took the copper out like 20 years ago, right?
And by "pinko points" are you alluding to a Coinstar transaction?
Fuck pennies, they've been utterly worthless as currency since long before anybody started talking about declaring them worthless.
It's all a relic from a bygone era when little mom & pop stores would try to undercut each other by fucking ten cents, five cents, three cents . . .
It's time we just round everything up or down to a dollar amount. Look merchant, you can charge for this fucking can of bread either four dollars or five.
Not $4.39, Not $4.75, not two for $4.50, fuck you. It's either four, or five. Everything. Galon of gas, graham cracker pie crust, bolt of cloth, everything. Round it up or round it down.
Ryder Richardson
They will be post-apocalypse currency, when the world economy crashes and paper money becomes worthless. We'll all revert to using coins again.
Either that, or you could melt them down and sell the copper.
Jayden Sanders
Tbh its nice to go to a store and have something for exactly 2 dollars etc
Matthew Flores
Anyone who wants to keep the penny is a retard, you can't buy anything with a penny it costs more then the penny is worth to make said penny. pennies cost you millions if not more in tax payer dollars for something people throw away. as for taking your pennies they dont have to take them they can/should just make it so there no longer legal tender.
Justin Adams
>can of bread
Jesus christ, this is real.
Carson Ward
I think quarters should be the lowest unit of currency, but yeah, you're basically right. Merchants are constantly playing with pennies, but if you pay $14.81 instead of $14.88 you're not getting a "good deal" because 7 cents is basically a worthless amount.
Nicholas Wilson
Oh hey. A while bwck i found that can in the back of my pantry, i tried it and it tastes like dense bread with too much molasses
Would not recommend
Gavin Bennett
In canada, you do that with loonies now.
Adrian Thomas
Fuck that shit. Go back to your pile leaf.
Grayson Garcia
How about eliminating pennies, make the dollar (and the 100 pennies that make it up) worth something again.
The FED and the stooges in Washington have led an orchestrated program to devalue it since it's creation.
Make Dollars Great Again!
Jordan Allen
>Either that, or you could melt them down and sell the zinc.
Fix that for you, and you'll lose money doing that.
Ethan Hill
bait thread
Jaxson Martin
>2017 >using cash when all currency is fiat Just use a card, ACH, or electronic currency and make fake money even faker. It's all just a database entry frontended with a COBOL interface no one can maintain in a few years anyway.
Nathaniel Barnes
It's their cashless society by degree. Then it'll be nickels, dines, quarters, and finally all coins and paper money except the Sacajowea Dollar.
It'll never happen though.
Caleb Williams
One thing I like to ask people when the topic of pennies comes up, is this:
Is the entertainment value of throwing a penny at something more or less than one cent?
I don't really care either way, but its an interesting way to think of it nonetheless.
Camden Mitchell
They want to take them off the market because the copper is more valuable than the coin itself, not unlike many years ago when coins were once gold, then silver took over, then eventually that even became worth too much so they phased it out. Now the penny is the next step in that they will take them back and melt them for the copper which is worth way more. They already jewed us with this a few years ago.
Brody Murphy
We should get rid of pennies. In fact we should just get rid of all physical money and completely digitize the economy. It'd save a shitload of money that goes into producing coins/bills and it would also make counterfeiting practically impossible
Jonathan Edwards
Watch grandpa destroy the economy by changing a 1 to a 0.
Leo Turner
>What the hell am I supposed to do with my big jug of pennies if they decide the penny isn't worth anything anymore? If pennies were worth anything you wouldn't have a big jug of them.
Ayden Foster
Pennies haven't been copper for ages. They're mad of zinc. If they were copper people would be melting them down
Bentley Rivera
Insert a penny in vagina before sexual activity. Say, "A penny for your thoughts."
Caleb Sanchez
Pennies are fucking pointless and we have no use for them. I hope we get rid of the.
>Nearly worthless >Cost more to make than their face value >Makes accounting more of a pain >Nobody carries or use them anyways
Brody Sanchez
We still need the penny because it's called fractional banking. Take the penny away and it becomes semi-fractional banking
Luis Hill
Let us track all of your transactions! Good goy!
Easton Hernandez
Pretty much any denomination below a quarter is useless today. Pennies and nickels cost more to mint than they're worth. Can't put dimes in gum all machines anymore. Get rid of them and mint dollars. That'll save money.
>>be leaf >>go to gas station >>put in 2 cents worth of fuel >>replace nozzle repeat until tank full >>free tank of gas fucking kek sounds like a bit straight out of trailer park boys
Nathaniel Jackson
Fun fact. The ridges on the sides of coins was to stop shyster gold-weighters from filing the sides of gold coins when weighing them
They'd let the gold dust fall to the floor on a mat, then collect up the gold dust at the end of the day, after jewing people out of fractions of a gram of their metal
Jaxon James
this it's literally stupid to keep them around when they cost more to make than their value that's how you get into debt, by spending more than you make which is ALSO why America is so credit card happy, we're a debt based society and I'm honestly surprised our economy hasn't collapsed more often
minimum wage going up solves nothing when everything goes up by MORE than minimum wage does it's why people are moving back with their parents, they can't afford their apartments/houses anymore you have to work 60+hours a week just to stay afloat god forbid you have a PART TIME job, then you're totally fucked you can't trust roommates, even best friends, because of them shorting you on the bill by moving out or even losing THEIR job(s)
basic necessities should be affordable for all
tl;dr America is fucked up and needs to be fixed
Alexander Nelson
how the fuck do i get change then?
Adam Robinson
>eg: If price is $10.01 or $10.02 = gets rounded down to $10.00
If price is $10.03 or $10.04 = gets rounded up to $10.05
They did it here, it's nice not having to much fucking change in your pocket
Cameron Allen
The cost of making those things is less than their value, pennies need to be subsidised, they can't support their own cost, if you want to keep pennies you're a communist.
Dominic Gutierrez
They'd still exist for electronic banking purposes, you just stop circulating physical pennies for use in cash transactions.
Lincoln Edwards
>less than their value, *more than
Camden Anderson
This. Fuck the penny, it is a useless pain in the ass. Just exchange any pennies you have for cash right before they make them valueless.
Gabriel Richardson
>Just exchange any pennies you have for cash right before they make them valueless. They don't become valueless, they just stop circulating new ones.
Those "CoinStar" machines in Canada are owned by the Mint - They encourage you to throw your change in their and they give you a credit, and the Mint takes the pennies and melts them down for the copper, which is worth more than the pennies.
You can always bring them to a bank and they'll take 'em too
Hudson Stewart
Or get rid of the Fed and go back to the gold standard. That would help.
Liam Martin
>filling up that extra $0.02 when paying cash
>Captcha: Select the Gas Stations
Gabriel Morgan
How many pennies does it take to buy a burge? The Fuck you need pennies for if they cost more to produce than their actual value.
Nathaniel Rodriguez
>filling up that extra $0.02 when paying cash Damn dude you're gonna put the oil companies out of business like that!
Isaiah Baker
C-can of bread????
Bentley Rogers
t. zinc industry
Face it faggot, pennies are largely useless for common transactions. They're a waste to make, and not worth continuing at the benefit of your feelings and nostalgia.
His arguments may make a lot sense but good luck getting Congress worked up about passing a law Banning pennies
Alexander Rogers
two pennies have been deposited into your account
Brandon Bennett
Why is there inflation? Why does something that cost $1 in 1900 cost $100 now? There was inflation AND delfation for the entire history of money until 1913. After 1972 inflation has gone nearly exponential.
If they get rid of pennies they will have to admit that the entire reason for the Federal Reserve is to slowly skim all profits from the ENTIRE ECONOMY via inflation. Pennies will go away when physical money goes away. They will probably switch to aluminum or steel pennies soon.
