3 reasons why Pennies suck

1.No one uses pennies to buy things.

Most vending machines don’t accept pennies, and when’s the last time you bought something for a cent? Would you take 5000 pennies to the store to buy groceries? People who walks around with bags of pennies, wasting everyone’s time, you’re a jerk. In fact, we lose over a billion dollars in productivity costs.If you fiddle with coins in general, you ARE a huge pain in the ass, unless it’s a vending machine. Pennies are kept in jars, shoe boxes, in between couch cushions, and behind furniture. They don’t facilitate the exchange of goods and services WHICH IS WHAT MONEY IS KIND OF FOR, BY THE WAY. Pennies are a waste of copper and zinc, which leads me to my next reason.

2.Pennies waste millions of precious American dollars for some piece of crap that no one uses

Did you know it costs about 1.83(figure from 2013) cents to mint a penny worth one cent? It’s kind of sad, since we’re subsidizing the existence of a coin that no one uses.Sure, tens or hundreds millions of dollars are miniscule when compared to a trillion-dollar budget, but every dollar counts; even if the money was used to build only one school, it’s still a better way to spend money than billions of tiny coins that I wish we were allowed to melt, for better purposes than wasting billions in productivity. Whoever made the law banning the export and melting of pennies must have known pennies sucked and were wastes of copper and zinc, so I don’t see why they aren’t doing anything! What if you walked in the bank with a jar of 100 pennies, and instead of getting 1 dollar, you asked for two. And the bank agreed. That’s exactly what is happening with the US government minting these pennies.

3.It’s a shame to Abraham Lincoln

Some people say it would be disrespectful to Lincoln to remove him from coins, but I think our 16th president would be utterly disappointed. Besides, Lincoln will be on the $5.00 bill for a while, until they become the new penny. But then, we can always put him on other bills. People say removing pennies would disrespectful to Lincoln, but I think it’s disrespectful to NOT remove pennies, and associate one of our greatest presidents with some piece of shit that wastes copper, millions of tax payers dollars, time, billions in productivity costs, and fails at doing it’s job, to facilitate the exchange of goods and services.

Let’s talk about Nickels

Nickels are over sized pieces of shit. Nickels are worse than pennies, because in 2012 it was reported they cost over 10 cents to make. It literally costs more to make a nickel than a dime. Jesus, does the government not realize that we’re wasting hundreds of millions of dollars on coins that we don’t really use! Let’s be honest-we don’t use nickels. People might really be angry about abolishing nickels completely, but if we could make them dime or penny sized, I hope we could get the production cost under 5 cents, until inflation makes dimes the new penny. Really, the only coin we use are the quarters. And since people might argue that nickels are still worth it, let me remind you that a quarter is 7 and a half minutes in a parking meter, so imagine how little a nickel would be worth.

Why removing the penny won’t mess up the economy

1. Prices won’t rise enough to make you broke. New Zealand, the Netherlands, and Canada, removed their pennies and did perfectly fine. No one hears stories about how their economy plummeted, because it didn’t. I bet you didn’t even know that those countries removed the penny.

2. Charities won’t lose money .Who the fuck would donate only a penny to charity? Unless your talking about a jar of spare change, which can still be filled with quarters and dimes.

3. This isn’t a partisan issue. It’s not about being conservative or liberal, but about common sense. Congressional supporters of penny reform have been half democrat, half republican. Congress really wants to save money in the budget, they should abolish pennies.

4. There used to be a half-cent, but when it was abolished, it had the buying power of a dime. So maybe we should have more coins on the chopping block.

Yes, a lot of this is repeated in other places, but this needs to be talked about more.

Further reference

www.youtube.com/y5UT04p5f7U

https://www.youtube.com/77C47XYm_3c

www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2006/07/penny_sense.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/24/AR2006092400946.html