Production of Pennies
Kerrigan McCulloch June 4, 2013 P.6
The federal government should stop the production of pennies, because the pennies have become useless in this economy today, makers of pennies could be doing more useful jobs, and the bill would simply decrease the use of the penny.
The time has come to abolish the outdated, almost worthless, bothersome and wasteful penny. We always have those couple pesky pennies that’s we have to deal with day by day because we can’t get rid of them. Now a day you can’t buy anything with a penny or even a handful of pennies like you use to be able to. It takes nearly a dime to buy what a penny bought back in 1950. Quarters and pennies circulate: pennies disappear because they are “literally more trouble than they are worth" (source C). The power of the penny just isn’t what it used to be in the past. Everywhere you turn walking down the street, you see pennies tossed to the ground, flung into the trash by people who think they’re mucky, and hijacked by cashiers who assume you are a part of the 27% who don’t keep track of their loose change and won’t notice a couple of pennies missing. By abolishing pennies there is the possibility of saying four hours per person each year, where normally during this time people have spent digging in their pockets or purses for those loose pennies or have waited for someone else ahead of them to dig them out (Source B).
The U.S mint, manufactures and distributes United States coins for circulation, keeps churning out a billion pennies a month. Two-thirds of those
The federal government should stop the production of pennies, because the pennies have become useless in this economy today, makers of pennies could be doing more useful jobs, and the bill would simply decrease the use of the penny.
The time has come to abolish the outdated, almost worthless, bothersome and wasteful penny. We always have those couple pesky pennies that’s we have to deal with day by day because we can’t get rid of them. Now a day you can’t buy anything with a penny or even a handful of pennies like you use to be able to. It takes nearly a dime to buy what a penny bought back in 1950. Quarters and pennies circulate: pennies disappear because they are “literally more trouble than they are worth" (source C). The power of the penny just isn’t what it used to be in the past. Everywhere you turn walking down the street, you see pennies tossed to the ground, flung into the trash by people who think they’re mucky, and hijacked by cashiers who assume you are a part of the 27% who don’t keep track of their loose change and won’t notice a couple of pennies missing. By abolishing pennies there is the possibility of saying four hours per person each year, where normally during this time people have spent digging in their pockets or purses for those loose pennies or have waited for someone else ahead of them to dig them out (Source B).
The U.S mint, manufactures and distributes United States coins for circulation, keeps churning out a billion pennies a month. Two-thirds of those
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