49% Support Dropping the Penny
Saturday, December 08, 2012
Americans are willing to give up the dollar bill if it would save the government money, and many wouldn't miss the penny either.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 49% of American Adults favor a proposal for the United States to stop making pennies. Thirty-one percent (31%) oppose dropping the one-cent coin, while 20% are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
The survey of 1,000 American Adults was conducted on December 5-6, 2012 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.