特朗普下令停止一分錢生產，理由是高成本和有限的公用事業

提倡拋棄一分錢的高產成本的倡導者 - 根據美國造幣廠的說法，目前每一分錢近4美分，而且公用事業有限。

President Donald Trump announced Sunday he’s ordered his administration to stop minting pennies, whose buying power is long past its prime and whose production now costs almost 4 cents each.

唐納德·特朗普（Donald Trump）總統週日宣布，他命令他的政府停止鑄造便士，他的購買力已經超過了巔峰時期，現在的產量為每人近4美分。

Here’s a look at some questions surrounding Trump’s order.

這是有關特朗普命令的一些問題。

Can Trump really order the Treasury to stop minting pennies without Congress’ approval?

特朗普真的可以命令財政部在未經國會認可的情況下停止鑄造便士嗎？

Yes, according to legal scholar Laurence H. Tribe.

是的，根據法律學者Laurence H. Tribe。

U.S. code gives the Treasury Secretary the authority to mint and issue coins “in amounts the secretary decides are necessary to meet the needs of the United States.”

美國法規授予財政部長造幣和發行硬幣的權力“秘書決定滿足美國需求的必要條件。”

If Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent decides the amount necessary for the penny is zero, he’s within his legal rights, Tribe said.

部落說，如果財政部長斯科特·貝斯特（Scott Bessent）決定一分錢所需的金額為零，那麼他處於其合法權利之內。

“Unlike a lot of what the new administration has been doing pursuant to the flood of executive orders since Jan. 20, this action seems to me entirely lawful and fully constitutional,” Tribe said.

部落說：“與自1月20日以來的行政命令氾濫的許多新政府所做的事情不同，這一行動在我看來似乎完全合法且完全憲法。”

Congress, which dictates currency specifications like the size and metal content of coins, could make Trump’s order permanent through law. But past congressional efforts to ditch the penny have failed.

國會決定貨幣規格之類的貨幣規格，例如硬幣的尺寸和金屬含量，可以通過法律永久地命令特朗普的命令。但是過去的國會為拋棄一分錢的努力失敗了。

Pennies are mostly made of zinc, and the American zinc lobby has been a major opponent to suggestions that the penny be eliminated.

便士主要是由鋅製成的，美國鋅遊說團一直是消除一分錢的建議。

How many pennies are really in circulation?

真正流通的幾分便利？

It depends on what you mean by circulation.

這取決於您的循環含義。

Pennies are the most popular coin made by the U.S. Mint, which reported making 3.2 billion of them last year. That’s more than half of all the new coins it made last year.

便士是美國造幣廠最受歡迎的硬幣，該硬幣據報導去年造成了32億美元。這是去年製造的所有新硬幣的一半以上。

MIT professor Jeff Gore, who founded Citizens to Retire the Penny, said coins are supposed to stay in circulation for about 30 years and that in the last three decades the U.S. Mint has made about 250 billion pennies.

麻省理工學院教授傑夫·戈爾（Jeff Gore）創立了公民退休，他說，硬幣應該在流通大約30年，在過去的三十年中，美國造幣廠已經賺了大約2500億美元的便士。

But, he says, “because nobody wants to use pennies, they fall out of active circulation much faster than other coins.”

但是，他說：“因為沒有人願意使用便士，所以它們從積極的循環中掉出來比其他硬幣快得多。”

If pennies sit in drawer for a decade, Gore asks, “Does that qualify as being in circulation?”

如果便士在抽屜裡坐了十年，戈爾問：“這是否有資格流通？”

Will Americans miss pennies?

美國人會想念便士嗎？

The experience in other countries suggests no.

在其他國家的經驗建議否。

Canada started phasing out its penny a dozen years ago and urged store owners to round prices to the nearest nickel for cash transactions. Electronic purchases were still billed to the nearest cent. The move came after New Zealand, Australia, the Netherlands, and others dropped their lowest-denomination coins.

加拿大一年前就開始淘汰其一分錢，並敦促商店所有者將價格匯總到最近的鎳進行現金交易。電子購買仍被計入最近的美分。此舉是在新西蘭，澳大利亞，荷蘭和其他人放棄了最低的宗派硬幣之後。

After dropping the penny or its equivalent, those countries have not looked back.

在放下一分錢或同等的一分錢之後，這些國家沒有回頭。