President Donald Trump says he has directed the Treasury Department to stop minting new pennies, citing the rising cost of producing the one-cent coin.
Up to three things now I can name that aren’t insane or 100% self-serving:
Legislation supporting HBCUs
Recognition of the Lumbee Tribe (though some research leads me to think it’s not such a black and white issue – no pun intended)
Ending the minting of basically useless pennies
$85 million is peanuts to the Federal Government, but cash in general is becoming quite outmoded and nobody may even notice if new bills and coins were only minted every other year.
Plus there is a decent chance that there is some devious way of implementing each thing to make them negatives instead of the positives they appear to be. Not planned by Trump, but by the people who wrote and put the orders in front of him.
Up to three things now I can name that aren’t insane or 100% self-serving:
$85 million is peanuts to the Federal Government, but cash in general is becoming quite outmoded and nobody may even notice if new bills and coins were only minted every other year.
Broken clocks and all that.
Plus there is a decent chance that there is some devious way of implementing each thing to make them negatives instead of the positives they appear to be. Not planned by Trump, but by the people who wrote and put the orders in front of him.