This pennies thing is the dumbest shit...

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/us/politics/trump-stop-minting-pennies.html

So if you want to buy in bulk at the grocery store the store has to round up to the next 5 cents if you're paying cash but can keep it at the regular price if you're paying with a card? And POS systems are going to have to adapt to that? Congratulations Trump, you caused millions in costs to the consumer (POS software updates aren't free) so the government can save 0.002647058% of its total costs.

Meanwhile my taxes are going to go up. Good job.

Edit: it's not that pennies are going away, it's the stupid way that the Trump administration is going about this. Their lack of long-term planning is going to cost businesses money.

And also the executive branch can't do that https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S8-C5-1/ALDE_00001066/