Penny Lane

Should the Production and Use of the Penny be Eliminated in the United States? By Sydni Peters If you gave Canada a penny for their thought, they'd advise you to get rid of the small copper coins. In fact, Canada, as well as many other countries have already taken action to rid their nation of the need for their lowest valued currency. Meanwhile, in America, our one cent coins are losing their value while causing other prices to rise. To discontinue the minting of these coins would mean better prices

and enjoyed collecting loose change to save up for toys. Kids would cherish even a single penny to add to their collection. However, with inflation and the increase in credit transactions, pennies are becoming ineffective. Pennies cost the government unnecessary amounts of money to produce, harshly impact the environment, and are not practical to use. Pennies waste precious taxpayer dollars every year. Pennies have costed the US government more to mint than than their face value for the past 11 years

Pennies should not be manufactured anymore. Some reasons why are that people hardly use them, it is not a ban, and because they are just not important. One reason pennies should not continue to be made is because people barely ever try to pay with pennies, or do anything with pennies. In Jeff Sommers article from the New York Times, he quotes a Canadian finance minister, “Pennies take up too much space on our dressers at home”.(Sommer) This quote shows people have pennies for no reason, they sit

A penny saved is a penny earned.This essay is about pennies shouldn’t stop being minted.The one side of this topic is pennies shouldn’t stop making.The other side of this topic is that pennies should stop being minted. Pennies shouldn’t stop being minted because of American Culture,Confusion in business, and money for charity. Pennies shouldn’t stop being minted because of American Culture.In Source two it states,”The one-cent piece,commonly referred to as a “penny,” has been a part of United States

or bills. Do we use pennies for virtually any transactions? The answer is no, we don’t. Consequently, the penny is far and away the least useful monetary value we have. Pennies are inefficient and should be cut out of the currency. The rationale behind this conclusion is simple: the price tag of minting a penny is more than one cent. Unfortunately for the penny, two other reasons prove that we require it no longer. The first reason is that not only will the removal of pennies make us more effective

the penny is a waste? Is a penny saved really a penny earned? Well not much longer it isn't, people think that we should discontinue the penny from our current day system. In my eyes i see the penny as a waste of time and a waste of money.There has been talk lately about discontinuing the minting of the us penny,and after reading all four articles it's hard to say that we should keep the penny: “Penny Wise, or 2.4 Cents Foolish?” (Source 1), “Is the Penny Worth It?” (Source 2), “Give a penny-Save

Find a penny, pick it up, all day long you’ll have good luck. This commonly used saying is being valued less and less as the days progress. On a daily basis, thousands of people walk down the streets of busy cities. Today the majority of people state that when they pass by a penny on the ground, they don’t stop to pick it up. Due to this and many other reasons penny production should cease. In society, other countries have chosen to withdraw their coins, pennies lack circulation, and they are costly

Pennies made before 1982 and the pennies that were made after them create a significant difference. Pennies made before 1982 are made of copper (Warnick 1). Due to the change of the of the metals over the time period it must of caused a change in the pennies mass. Therefore, the density of pennies created before 1982 and the pennies produced today have different densities. Density can also be used to identify unknown substances“Density is defined as the ratio of mass to volume” (Lab: A Penny For

abolish the penny. One of the examples of why the United States shouldn’t abolish the penny is if the federal reserve changed the material the penny is made out of the cost of material will decrease. Secondly, the United States shouldn’t abolished the penny because the tax on items would increase and force people into a situation where they don’t know what items cost. Lastly, if the United States abolished the penny americans would be forced to use the nickel that cost more to make then the penny. For

Eng 1020 Ms.Confer 08/26/15 Should we abolish the Penny-Con As a recognized part of modern American life, the penny is far too entrenched in our daily life to be abolished. In fact, the effort to abolish the penny would be enormous, and simply not worth the estimated benefits of such a monumental a change. In ridding our economy of the penny, the federal government would first need to convince a public greatly in favor of keeping the penny. As indicated by a poll by the Harris group public