Death to the Penny?

orighu · #1 07-17-2006, 10:48 PM

What do you all think about the talk of riding our pockets of the penny? I'm not sure I have an opinion.. I know i have about $20 in a jar that needs to hit a CoinStar.......

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com...1=8376&lc=1033

macallan25 · #2 07-17-2006, 10:48 PM

I hate pennies.

DeltAlum · #3 07-18-2006, 04:32 PM

I hate pennies as well -- and it supposedly costs more than 1 cent to produce them.

Let's get rid of them.

kddani · #4 07-18-2006, 04:33 PM

I don't think K-fed participating in the campaign is going to help it any, lol

tunatartare · #5 07-18-2006, 04:46 PM

Would the nickel be next to go after the penny?

AlphaFrog · #6 07-18-2006, 04:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kddani

I don't think K-fed participating in the campaign is going to help it any, lol

K-Fed can use all the pennies he can get.

SOPi_Jawbreaker · #7 07-18-2006, 05:45 PM

I think K-Fed's campaign was totally stupid. I hate these new, stupid, lame guerilla/viral advertising campaigns. The lastest one that I'm hating is NoScruf. article or NoScruf website...enter at your own risk When I first heard that Brooke Burke and Kelly Monaco were participating in some kind of protest, I thought it would be for something AIDS awareness or world hunger. Nope.

Back on topic, I think they should just change the materials used to make the coins. I think if we got rid of pennies, it would just cause a lot of problems. Prices would all have to be rounded to the nearest nickel. Sales tax would have to be either 5% or 10%. And tons of angry people would be left with tons of useless pennies.