You might be interested in this article. Pennies are essentially just a logistical burden, an unnecessary cost to produce, something with historical precedent for doing away with, something Canada who had a similar-value penny to ours when they stopped producing it doesn’t seem to miss, a huge source of litter and environmental damage, and not at all beneficial to the consumer.
There’s really no rational argument to keep the penny outside of familiarity, and I would be willing to bet that if we’d removed the penny several decades ago and a 2024 reintroduction came up, it would be wildly unpopular and would receive widespread pushback.
You might be interested in this article. Pennies are essentially just a logistical burden, an unnecessary cost to produce, something with historical precedent for doing away with, something Canada who had a similar-value penny to ours when they stopped producing it doesn’t seem to miss, a huge source of litter and environmental damage, and not at all beneficial to the consumer.
There’s really no rational argument to keep the penny outside of familiarity, and I would be willing to bet that if we’d removed the penny several decades ago and a 2024 reintroduction came up, it would be wildly unpopular and would receive widespread pushback.