@[email protected] to [email protected] • 1 month agoStop making cents: US Mint moves forward with plans to kill the pennyapnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square150fedilinkarrow-up1395cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•1 month agoWe reuse these coins so the cost to produce them is unimportant.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•edit-21 month agoOh for sure, but if the justification is that the penny costs more to make than it is worth then isn’t the nickel in that same boat?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 month agoyes, Im not arguing to get rid of coinage.
We reuse these coins so the cost to produce them is unimportant.
Oh for sure, but if the justification is that the penny costs more to make than it is worth then isn’t the nickel in that same boat?
yes, Im not arguing to get rid of coinage.