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2025-02-11 -Short Attention Span Theater-
How Trump might get rid of the penny ‐ and what could come next for your pocket change
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Posted by Skidmark 2025-02-11 02:05|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top

#1 
How about starting with the 9/10 cent charge on a Gallon of GAS?
Posted by NN2N1 2025-02-11 05:16||   2025-02-11 05:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Greenland’s March Election Focused on its Independence
Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-02-11 07:07||   2025-02-11 07:07|| Front Page Top

#3 Uncontrolled inflation created by unquenchable Congressional spending addiction created this situation.
Posted by Procopius2k 2025-02-11 07:55||   2025-02-11 07:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Getting rid of the penny introduces a new problem: nickels
Posted by Skidmark 2025-02-11 07:58||   2025-02-11 07:58|| Front Page Top

#5 I doubt it will end with the penny.
Posted by Besoeker 2025-02-11 07:59||   2025-02-11 07:59|| Front Page Top

#6 ...you feel that shift to the <- left, rounding up.
Posted by Procopius2k 2025-02-11 08:06||   2025-02-11 08:06|| Front Page Top

#7 
Posted by Bobby 2025-02-11 08:28||   2025-02-11 08:28|| Front Page Top

#8 Biblical in a sense, the embedded wrist chip really is the way to go.
Posted by Besoeker 2025-02-11 08:33||   2025-02-11 08:33|| Front Page Top

#9 Think manufacturing a penny is expensive, go digital and watch that decimal point start moving.

Keep it grounded, and ask why it is so expensive?
Posted by swksvolFF 2025-02-11 12:35||   2025-02-11 12:35|| Front Page Top

#10 ...cause we went off the gold standard. That is the historical start in many civilizations to 'debasing' the coinage, aka government induced inflation.
Posted by Procopius2k 2025-02-11 15:17||   2025-02-11 15:17|| Front Page Top

#11 ^Oh, there was plenty of coin debasing (by adulteration) under gold standard.
Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-02-11 15:21||   2025-02-11 15:21|| Front Page Top

#12 Getting rid of the Penny makes CENTS!

Posted by Airandee 2025-02-11 15:46||   2025-02-11 15:46|| Front Page Top

#13 #11 there is a story out of the old west when the government couldn't provide enough money to a rather isolated region that caused a individual to coin money for circulation. The government arrested and tried the individual. However the jury acquitted when evidence presented in court showed 'his' coins had a higher content of gold than the government's.
Posted by Procopius2k 2025-02-11 16:03||   2025-02-11 16:03|| Front Page Top

#14 ...speaking of which -

Clark, Gruber and company were making silver dollars during a winter when Colorado was snowed in and cut off from the Philadelphia mint and coins were in short supply in Denver. These silver dollars had more silver in them than the dollars made by the Philadelphia mint. After the winter was over the US Treasury sued them for counterfeiting the US currency.In court they proved that they were not counterfeiting because their money was better than the US mint produced dollars. They won the case and to stop them from making dollars the US was forced to buy them out for $25,000 and converted their operations to what became the Denver Mint.
Posted by Procopius2k 2025-02-11 16:10||   2025-02-11 16:10|| Front Page Top

#15 ..my correction - it was silver not gold
Posted by Procopius2k 2025-02-11 16:11||   2025-02-11 16:11|| Front Page Top

#16 At various points in the 1930s US municipalities were so short of cash (with all the banks closed at one point) that they printed their own currency. The currency included the promise to exchange it for real US notes (when / if they became available). Haven't heard any of them were prosecuted for counterfeiting. Their employees were glad to get something for their work at a time when others couldn't.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2025-02-11 22:44||   2025-02-11 22:44|| Front Page Top

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