{"id":6693,"date":"2010-09-30T03:00:54","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T08:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=6693"},"modified":"2010-09-30T03:00:54","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T08:00:54","slug":"the-case-against-pennies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/6693","title":{"rendered":"The Case Against Pennies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>aka the <em>disgusting bacteria-ridden disks of suck that fail to facilitate commerce<\/em><\/p>\n<p><object class=\"embed\" width=\"425\" height=\"264\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" \ndata=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/77C47XYm_3c?fs=1\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/77C47XYm_3c?fs=1\" \/><em>You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video<\/em><\/object><\/p>\n<p>You only have to get rid of the penny for cash transactions \u2014 you could still track it for electronic ones.  You&#8217;d just round up or down on the whole transaction.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>UPDATE: Those statistics are out of date. In 2009, it cost 1.6 cents to make a penny and 6.1 cents to make a nickel; the US Mint lost 22 million on penny and nickel production, not the 70 million they lost in 2008. (This is because the recession has made zinc and nickel cheaper.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>aka the disgusting bacteria-ridden disks of suck that fail to facilitate commerce You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video You only have to get rid of the penny for cash transactions \u2014 you could still &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/6693\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}