even a broken old clock with radium lume that's flaking off and also somehow is both filled with asbestos AND on fire will coincidentally show the correct time twice a day
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What will happen ta all the penny smashing tourist machines.
~~Those were alteady technically illegal because defacing money (even a penny) is a felony.~~ Edit: see below comment
A bunch of them have already swapped out to use penny-sized metal blanks instead.
This isn't true. Defacing money for the purpose of fraud or to melt coins for their metal value is illegal but creating elongated coins is not. Elongated Coin Legality
Oh, interesting, you're correct. I didn't realize 'intent to fraud' was one of the requirements for it to be a felony. I saw one of the machines that uses the metal slugs and assumed they were all switching over because of that.
a nickel (0.05$) costs 14 pennies (0.14$) to make
there is no way coins are that expensive
edit: fuck
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Copper lobby didn't bribe him enough
Dollars are the new cents
Remember, when you see these little nothing "wins" it's just meant to soften you up for a bigger piece of shit you're about to be forced to swallow. Like when a few of the trump supreme court justices pretend to vote on the side of reason to claim they contain multitudes. They [crying] love beer, boofing in the devil's triangle, being under his eye, going on billionaire kompromat vacations and dismantling the society you're trying to care for your family within.
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I mean, this is actually valid. Pennies cost more than a penny to make. I don't think anyone likes pennies. I wish we'd done this a long time ago; it's not the first time it's been discussed. First thing I've heard of Trump wanting to do that didn't piss me off, to be honest.
They should really stop minting anything smaller than a quarter.
he don't actually care about that. he'd figure some way to make 'em cost even more, so he can take a cut of the action.
he's just got a beef with lincoln.. for reasons
but for now, lets just toss this on the pile of things he's doing or saying without legislative authority.
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The last coin to be removed from circulation was the half penny, or hay-penny. At the time they stopped minting it, it had the buying power of 18 cents.
We could stop minting pennies, nickels, and dimes, all of which cost more than their face value to mint.
Trump is a fucking moron and a fascist, but rapist clocks are right twice a day.
Edit: I looked it up, and I was wrong. The dime does not cost more to mint than its face value, but the penny and the nickel do. The dime is still functionally worthless, and could easily be removed from circulation without affecting commerce.
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Is he trying to run afoul of the zink lobby? Those folks go hard.
Those folks go hard.
I would say 2.5 on a scale of 1-10.
spoiler
Yes, I looked up the hardness.
If those people destroy Trump and Elon, I'll be somewhere between love and hate.
Let it be known that I'm capable of recognizing a good Trump action, however rare they may be
Canada did this a long time ago for similar reasons, and many other countries have stopped production of equivalent low-value coins as well.
Can't argue with this one.
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If pennies were accepted by vending machines, I'd actually spend them more often than saving them up in a giant pickle jar that I take to a coinstar once it's full and get like $10.
Just sweaty ass-pennies from now on.
Good job broken clock
Oh thank god. Do like Canada
donald trump can have my ass pennies, I'm sure he's used some of them already
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