It happened since I was a kid. So I love the worst. Pennies are the worst coins. No, I love pennies. I love pennies, but I hate government waste. And Pennies cost about 3 cents to make, really. It would save the federal government over $200 million a year. And not to mention the environmental impact, the zinc that goes into the pennies, the electricity that's made in producing them. So it's wasteful from an environmental perspective. (00:46–00:55)
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Asserts that pennies cost more to produce than their face value, leading to significant government waste.
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