A Good Death to the Penny By: Dylan J. pence Pennies. The innocent change that clutters pockets and desktops in the U.S.A. The pennies you found on the sidewalk walking as a child, a good memory, right? Let me ask you a question, what if those pennies are on the ground and clutter pockets for a reason? In your childhood, could you buy much with a penny alone; and even now, but I digress. There was a saying in my early childhood that a wise man once said to me and I would always repeat to myself whenever I found a penny on the ground, that was a penny saved is a penny earned, but what has the environment earned, or what about the U.S Federal Government? Some people think that they can be used for charities. Listen to me when I say why we should get rid of this …show more content…
They rely on pennies as their main source of income. On some sort of level, anyone who wants to keep pennies or not, can agree on this statement. But, if we get rid of this irrelevant penny, our lowest value coin will be the nickel. So if a foundation such as make a wish makes 77.7 million dollars a year. Assuming that all of those donations are pennies, (Which they are not) they would make almost 400 million dollars. Should we give the government and charities more money instead of losing so much more for a piece of zinc and copper with the dead guys face on it, along with a bunch of child labor to get these metals, but that’s another can of worms. Penny keeping activists also may argue that the nickel cost over 200% more that what it is worth to make, but if we get rid of the nickle, the lowest value coin will be the dime, which costs about 6 cents to make and then the donations would be outrageous! This feet would only be possible if we get rid of this piece of copper and zinc that is keeping many families and the environment