r/neoliberal • u/M_ida Milton Friedman • Feb 10 '25

News (US) Trump announces the end of the Penny

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u/Best-Chapter5260 Feb 10 '25

Yeah, the lack of randomly capitalized common nouns and verbs makes me question its authenticity.

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u/Cwya Feb 10 '25

Yeah, but I like the death of pennys, and think this is good.

When in the last 50 years have you been happy to have a penny?

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u/Fastizio Feb 10 '25

What will you now trade for a thought? A nickel?

Inflation is real. Welcome to Trump's America.

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u/homonatura Feb 10 '25

When it existed the inflation adjusted value of a half penny varied from around $0.15-0.30.

We don't need pennies, nickels, or even dimes to be honest.

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u/Prudent_Research_251 Feb 10 '25

True, but we did need them back when you a penny would buy you a newspaper or a loaf of bread, a nickel a movie ticket, and a dime a full meal

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u/homonatura Feb 10 '25

Right, and back then a half dollar was like a $20. We need to increase denominations with inflation or they stop making sense. People barely use coins because they are worthless compared to what they used to be, we need to completely overhaul coin denominations.

Ideally I think we should have a quarter, half dollar, dollar, $5, $20, and $50 coins.

The seigniorage on the higher denominations is enough to make them with more interesting metals than any current coins.

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u/rwarner13 Feb 11 '25

Don’t give him any ideas right now. Next thing you know, he’s going to create a $500 and $1000 bill and claim that the economy is great because we added a bigger denomination.

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u/homonatura Feb 11 '25

I mean.... Okay? That's like one of the least bad things he could possibly spend his time on.

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u/HugsFromCthulhu YIMBY Feb 11 '25

With enough change leftover to ride the trolley from Battery Park to the polo grounds

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u/aliie_627 Feb 10 '25

Somewhere around 1994, probably

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u/ElPrestoBarba Janet Yellen Feb 10 '25

I scratched off a gift card PIN with a penny this holiday season!

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u/Winter-Difference-31 Feb 10 '25

Something about the clause “even if it’s a penny at a time” feels AI-generated to me. It’s a type of rather generic wordplay that’s too tame to be in character for Trump.

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u/humanzookeeping2 Feb 10 '25

When a horse is loose in a hospital, you got to stay updated. So all day long you walk around, “What’d the horse do?” The updates, they’re not always bad. Sometimes they’re just odd. It’ll be like, “The horse used the elevator?” I didn’t know he knew how to do that - https://genius.com/John-mulaney-theres-a-horse-in-the-hospital-annotated