特朗普說，他將停止鑄造便士，這實際上使美國損失了2美分

長期以來，美國已經鑄造了幾分錢，這實際上使我們花費了2美分

President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that he had instructed the Treasury secretary to stop minting America’s one-cent coins.

唐納德·特朗普總統週日宣布，他已指示財政部長停止鑄造美國的單美分硬幣。

“For far too long the United States has minted pennies which literally cost us more than 2 cents,” Trump said in a Truth Social post after going to half of the Super Bowl. “This is so wasteful!” he added. “Let’s rip the waste out of our great nations budget, even if it’s a penny at a time.”

特朗普在進入超級碗一半後的真相社會哨所中說：“美國已經鑄造了幾分錢，這實際上使我們花費了2美分。” “這太浪費了！”他補充說。 “即使一次是一分錢，讓我們將廢物從我們的大國預算中剝奪。”

Here are some key questions and opinionated answers about permanently pinching pennies from America’s coin purse.

這裡有一些關鍵問題和關於永久捏合美國硬幣錢包的便士的自以為是的答案。

Is this not a terrible idea?

這不是一個可怕的主意嗎？

It might even be a good idea. Assuming Trump isn’t just making news and can actually do this — and follows through competently and without somehow carelessly breaking the U.S. economy — there may be broad support for the plan. Because seriously: Nobody wants to deal with pennies anymore, from retail clerks to wishing-well cleaners to banks and small children. These days, you can buy next to nothing for less than a heavy bag of pennies. If you want to buy a dozen eggs right now, it will cost you like seven pounds of pennies.

這甚至可能是個好主意。假設特朗普不僅可以發表新聞，而且可以實際上做到這一點 - 並遵守有能力，而不必以某種方式破壞了美國的經濟，可能會對該計劃有廣泛的支持。因為很認真：從零售業務員到希望清潔清潔工到銀行和小孩，沒人願意再與便士打交道。如今，您幾乎可以買不到一袋便士。如果您現在想購買十二個雞蛋，那將花費您七磅的便士。

Can Trump unilaterally discontinue the penny?

特朗普可以單方面停止一分錢嗎？

Like so many other things Trump has said or tried to do since retaking office, it’s not clear if he can legally do that. It would probably require an act of Congress to fully discontinue the coin, since Congress dictates America’s currency specifications. But as with so many other things, Trump may just try to do it anyway.

就像特朗普自職以來所說或嘗試做的許多其他事情一樣，尚不清楚他是否可以合法地做到這一點。由於國會規定了美國的貨幣規格，因此可能需要國會的一項法案才能完全中斷硬幣。但是，與其他許多事情一樣，特朗普可能還是試圖做到這一點。

How much does it cost to make pennies? How wasteful are they?

賺錢多少錢？他們有多浪費？

The U.S. Mint said it lost $85.3 million making 3.2 billion pennies in the fiscal year 2024. And every one-cent penny cost 3.7 cents to make.

美國造幣廠表示，在2024財政年度，損失了8530萬美元的32億便士。每一分錢的賺錢費用為3.7美分。

Last year, The New York Times Magazine published a very convincing argument for abolishing the penny. As Caity Weaver reported:

去年，《紐約時報》雜誌發表了一個令人信服的論點，以廢除一分錢。正如凱蒂·韋弗（Caity Weaver）報導的那樣：

Most pennies produced by the U.S. Mint are given out as change but never spent; this creates an incessant demand for new pennies to replace them, so that cash transactions that necessitate pennies (i.e., any concluding with a sum whose final digit is 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 or 9) can be settled. Because these replacement pennies will themselves not be spent, they will need to be replaced with new pennies that will also not be spent, and so will have to be replaced with new pennies that will not be spent, which will have to be replaced by new pennies (that will not be spent, and so will have to be replaced). In other words, we keep minting pennies because no one uses the pennies we mint.

美國造幣廠生產的大多數便士都被賦予變革，但從未花費。這產生了對新便士替換它們的不斷需求，因此可以解決必要便士的現金交易（即，最終數字為1、2、3、4、6、6、7、8或9的總和的任何結論） 。因為這些替代便士本身將不會花費，所以需要將它們替換為也不會花費的新便士，因此必須用不花的新便士代替，這些便士將不得不用來替換便士（這不會花費，因此必須更換）。換句話說，我們不斷造幣廠，因為沒有人使用我們造幣廠的便士。

A conservative estimate holds that there are 240 billion pennies lying around the United States — about 724 ($7.24) for every man, woman and child there residing, and enough to hand two pennies to every bewildered human born since the dawn of man.

保守的估計認為，在美國各地有2400億美元的便士 - 每個居住的男人，女人和兒童約有724（7.24美元），足以將兩便士交給自男人黎明以來出生的每個迷人的人。

Furthermore, Weaver noted that if everyone collected all the pennies they had just lying around in coin jars or wherever and used them, dealing with the sudden surplus of heavy, mostly worthless coins could break our financial system, logistically.

此外，Weaver指出，如果每個人都收集了他們剛剛躺在硬幣罐或任何地方並使用它們的所有便士，那麼應對沉重的沉重盈餘，大部分毫無價值的硬幣可能會破壞我們的金融體系。

And per CNN, Jeff Lenard, the vice-president of strategic industry initiatives at the National Association of Convenience Stores, has speculated that getting rid of pennies could save millions of seconds of lost productivity every day. Think of everything we could collectively do with all those seconds.

而且，美國國家便利店協會戰略行業倡議副總裁傑夫·萊納德（Jeff Lenard）推測，擺脫便士可以節省數百萬秒的生產力損失。想想我們可以共同完成所有這些秒的一切。

Has anyone else successfully gotten rid of pennies?

還有其他人成功擺脫了便士嗎？

Yes! Canada, the massive coin-heavy country that has zero interest in becoming America’s 51st state, sunsetted its pennies more than a decade ago. Canadians just rounded prices up or down in penniless situations, still used the cent in other non-cash transactions, and it’s all gone fine. Australia also got rid of its penny, and New Zealand got rid of its one-, two-, and five-cent coins.

是的！加拿大，這是一個對成為美國第51個州的巨大興趣零的國家，十多年前降落了幾分錢。加拿大人只是在一文不見的情況下將價格上漲或下跌，仍然在其他非現金交易中使用了一分錢，而且一切都很好。澳大利亞也擺脫了一分錢，新西蘭擺脫了其一，兩美分的硬幣。

Also, the U.S. got rid its half-cent coin back in 1857.

另外，美國在1857年擺脫了半美分的硬幣。

Who opposes ending the penny?

誰反對結束一分錢？

The zinc industry isn’t much of a fan of the idea, nor is the pro-penny lobbyist Americans for Common Cents, which has been funded by the company that sells zinc coin blanks to the U.S. Mint. In 2006, the organization hired Britney Spears’s ex-husband, Kevin “K-Fed” Federline, to wear an Abraham Lincoln mask at a penny-pushing event in Times Square. (“Man, I feel good about the penny!” he reportedly said.) More recently, the ACC responded to a DOGE attack on the penny by insisting that eliminating the penny would waste more taxpayer money, not less, since it would require the production of more nickels:

鋅行業並不是這個想法的忠實擁護者，專業人士的遊說者也不是普通美分的美國人，該公司是由向美國造幣廠出售鋅硬幣空白的公司資助的。 2006年，該組織在時代廣場舉行的一場佳分賽事上聘請了布蘭妮·斯皮爾斯（Britney Spears）的前夫凱文·凱文·弗德·費德林（Kevin“ K-Fed” Federline ）戴上亞伯拉罕·林肯面具。 （“伙計，我對一分錢感覺很好！”他說。）最近，ACC通過堅持認為消除一分錢會浪費更多納稅人的錢，而不是少於一分錢，因為這將需要這需要，因為這將需要生產更多鎳：

[I]t would increase the Mint’s losses due to higher

[i]由於較高