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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 5261099, member: 66&quot;]1. no objection</p><p>2. Can&#039;t be done without replacing or reprograming every piece of coin handling equipment in the country, and who pays for that?&nbsp; we can create new coins that co circulate without modification but which will still cost&nbsp; more than 5 cents apiece to make, or we can make coins that cost less but which can not co circulate with existing coins without extensive and expensive modification to existing equipment.</p><p>3. I could go along with that since the coin lasts longer, but with the increase use of digital payments dollar bills are now lasting long enough that the coin is no longer cheaper over its projected lifespan.&nbsp; We missed that window of opportunity.</p><p>4. If the dollar note is discontinued the $2 note will come into much more common use on its own accord, no official efforts would need to be made to promote its use.</p><p>5.&nbsp; No objection to polymer notes, but if polymer $1 notes were made it would mean even greater life span for them an dput the cost argument against the dollar coins at an even greater advantage.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That was because the government was supposed to make the switch over mandatory, but then they chickens out and allowed it to be voluntary.&nbsp; No one volunteered.&nbsp; Believe it of not officially we have been on the metric standard since 1866, but the politicians have never had the intestinal fortitude to mandate the changeover.&nbsp; So 154 years later we are still using the old &quot;english&quot; system that no one else in the world uses.</p><p><br /></p><p>I take that back we are not the only country that doesn&#039;t use the metric system.&nbsp; we are right up there with Liberia and Myanmar, but Myanmar is in the process of switching.&nbsp; And even the US has a Metric Program in the US government to switch us over, and back in 2013 the number of government employees in the program doubled.....there are now two of them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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