Pennies

Do you think pennies should be kept in circulation?

  • Da

    Votes: 12 57.1%

  • Nyet

    Votes: 6 28.6%

  • I don't care

    Votes: 3 14.3%
  • Total voters
    21
Lord Bowser

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So in my history class, we got a project in which we have a debate over a certain topic, and my group's topic is whether or not pennies should be discontinued. So i wanted to ask you guys; what do you think should be the fate of the penny?
 
Whilst they're not entirely necessary, I do think they should be kept in, especially since penny machines would no longer work.
 
I'm not going to lie, I read the thread title as 'penises'
It would be a lot of hassle to discontinue them though as lots of stuff would have to be changed, so imo, I would keep them as its not worth the hassle.
 
Phantom L said:
I'm not going to lie, I read the thread title as 'penises'
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sick-minded much

Anywho, I say that pennies should be discontinued because the average wage of a US worker is about 17 dolllars an hour - which is 1 cent every 2 seconds - so pennies are basically worthless, and it takes more money to make a penny than what they're actually worth, so there would be more benefits than drawbacks should they be removed.
 
Phantom L said:
I'm not going to lie, I read the thread title as 'penises'
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same here

anyways i really don't see the point in getting rid of pennies
 
Lakitu de Vlot said:
Just imagine the amount of pennies in existence. Multiply by their value. How much do you get?

± 200 035 318 672 pennies * $ 0,01 = ± $ 2 000 353 186,72

2 milliard seems enough to finish the crisis with. So they can stay.
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2 billion versus like 17 trillion (I'm not keeping track at this point of how big our national debt is) is nothing

and that's every penny in circulation
 
Keep the pennies, in the past you could go to stores and buy candies for a penny. They obviously have some past value to many of the elderly people. Also, if the economy gets better and deflates a little, pennies could mean more once again. We should just try and keep them in circulation.
 
I'd say no. I don't think there's any point of removing them.
 
A perverted female
 
Anyway, back on topic.
It just seems a lot of fuss for me to remove pennies because think of all the things that would have to be changed, I mean even school textbooks and the curriculum might have to be changed. I don't know if its the same in America, but in the UK, maths books use referance to coins and if you choose to study economics/business/finance then pennies are involved, so all those sorts of things might have to be changed, along with tills and machines which use coins.
 
That's why I mentioned that it is pointless; it would cause an unnecessary infrastructure change issue, another problem we don't need in the US. It's kinda like converting us here from the English to the Metric system.
 
It costs more than one cent to make a damn penny.

Stop manufacturing them but keep them as legal tender.
 
Phantom L said:
Anyway, back on topic.
It just seems a lot of fuss for me to remove pennies because think of all the things that would have to be changed, I mean even school textbooks and the curriculum might have to be changed. I don't know if its the same in America, but in the UK, maths books use referance to coins and if you choose to study economics/business/finance then pennies are involved, so all those sorts of things might have to be changed, along with tills and machines which use coins.
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Wait, are you saying you actually get to use textbooks that aren't dated by several years/decades? And the educational facilities actually pay attention to that sort of thing where you are?
 
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