Marcellus Williams, whose murder conviction was questioned by a prosecutor, died by lethal injection Tuesday evening in Missouri after the US Supreme Court denied a stay.
You guys also did away with your penny, legalized recreational cannabis nationally, and instituted universal healthcare. If the US followed suit in any of these four things, I would be so happy.
You might be interested in this article. Pennies are essentially just a logistical burden, an unnecessary cost to produce, something with historical precedent for doing away with, something Canada who had a similar-value penny to ours when they stopped producing it doesn’t seem to miss, a huge source of litter and environmental damage, and not at all beneficial to the consumer.
There’s really no rational argument to keep the penny outside of familiarity, and I would be willing to bet that if we’d removed the penny several decades ago and a 2024 reintroduction came up, it would be wildly unpopular and would receive widespread pushback.
You guys also did away with your penny, legalized recreational cannabis nationally, and instituted universal healthcare. If the US followed suit in any of these four things, I would be so happy.
Im a single issue voter regarding keeping the penny for no particular reason.
You might be interested in this article. Pennies are essentially just a logistical burden, an unnecessary cost to produce, something with historical precedent for doing away with, something Canada who had a similar-value penny to ours when they stopped producing it doesn’t seem to miss, a huge source of litter and environmental damage, and not at all beneficial to the consumer.
There’s really no rational argument to keep the penny outside of familiarity, and I would be willing to bet that if we’d removed the penny several decades ago and a 2024 reintroduction came up, it would be wildly unpopular and would receive widespread pushback.