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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;KLJ, post: 134773, member: 1910&quot;]We will never (at least for the foreseeable future) get rid of the cent for the same reason we&#039;ll never get rid of the $1 note.&nbsp; Politics.&nbsp; I read somewhere that over 50% of the Mint&#039;s coining efforts go into coining cents.&nbsp; Eliminating the cent would mean getting rid of a large number of employees, and AFSCME (I think that&#039;s the Mint&#039;s union) would never allow that to happen.&nbsp; In addition, I also believe that cent blanks are produced only by a company in Tennessee.&nbsp; Getting rid of the cent would greatly damage their business.&nbsp; Guess where Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is from?&nbsp; Tennessee.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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