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800, 321-0-7-10 is the number.

Let's go to Dave in Chicago.

Dave, how you doing?

Good morning, Mark.

I'm doing very well, thank you.

Mark, I see that President Trump intends to

stop manufacturing the penny because it costs over three cents to do stuff. My question is,

why doesn't he stop printing the $2 bill? Well, we probably don't make that many of them in

its paper. So that probably doesn't cost as much.

Good question.

The reason the penny costs so much to make is the metal, the price of the metals in it

have gone up.

And believe it or not, it costs three cents to make a penny.

So he stole the mint, stop making pennies.

You're wasting money.

And when was the last time you used to penny? I don't even save them anymore. I remember we used to save them in a big jar and then

what are you going to do with them? What the hell are you going to do with them? Remember,

you'd take them to this, the supermarket has a machine where you can convert it, you pour the coins

in. Then you find out it's charging you like 25%.

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