At least as far back as the 1970's, every time our civil servants in the treasury ask congress to let them stop making pennies, the John Birch Society types rai

At least as far back as the 1970's, every time our civil servants in the treasury ask congress to let them stop making pennies, the John Birch Society types raise such a stink about how this is a communist conspiracy to enable world government, that the politicians drop it as not being worth the fight. Source: Michael Blumenthal, Secretary of the Treasury 1977-79.