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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;MIKES3, post: 1098235, member: 29053&quot;]I believe it&#039;s a guy named Jim Kolbe.&nbsp; Represenative of Arizona. This has been talked about since 2006.&nbsp; It cost&#039;s 1.4 cents to make a penny. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>That doesnt make much sense.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The great thing about America is that we have smart people to analyze every conceivable problem, </p><p>so we know what we should do. But the less great thing about America is that politicians don&#039;t always care what&#039;s smartest, </p><p>because they face other pressures. Kolbe is up against something called Americans for Common Cents, </p><p>a pro-penny lobby funded partly by the zinc industry. The zinc guys have already secured a quiet victory. </p><p>In 2009, the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln&#039;s birth, the U.S. Mint will issue four commemorative zinc-filled pennies.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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