By Robert Brodsky robert.brodsky@newsday.com
To them, it just makes cents.
Some members of Long Island's business community expressed support Monday for a directive from President Donald Trump telling the U.S. Treasury Department to stop minting the one-cent coin.
"For far too long the United States has minted pennies which literally cost us more than 2 cents. This is so wasteful!" Trump said in a post Sunday night on his Truth Social site. "I have instructed my Secretary of the US Treasury to stop producing new pennies."
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