Argumentative Essay About Pennies

Do you have extra coins taking up space in your wallet? Are you saving up for a rainy day? That probably won’t happen until the next generation! 13 billion pennies (1,040 pennies a second) are made each year and people rarely use them! Two-thirds of the coins that the U.S. Mint produces every year are pennies. Look how much money we are wasting! I think that annihilating pennies would benefit the people of the United States and moreover protect the environment. Eliminating the penny has many advantages that can maybe help you one day! Let’s work together to convince the United States Government to eliminate pennies! First off, I think we should annihilate the penny because pennies harm the environment. Have you heard the news lately? There are many problems such as global warming and environmental destruction. Pennies are made of copper and zinc. Both of these materials have to be mined in order to get them. The process of mining these materials releases sulfur dioxide, lead, and zinc into the atmosphere and the environment. Zinc is detrimental to the organisms in the surrounding area. Evidence for this is, “The process of …show more content…
For a fact, the government spends 1.5 cents for every penny it makes. Look at it from the other side. If no one uses the penny, that causes the government to spend more on making the penny. For every one billion pennies they make, they are spending 1500000000 cents. Believe me, that is a lot of money. That is 15 million dollars. That money could be spent on the issues that our country needs. Some of these include better roads, more funding towards education, and much more. You might think that eliminating the penny will cause an economic destruction. If you think that, you are absolutely wrong. In past history, the government had no problem eliminating the halfpenny which caused little to no economical