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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;fusiafinch, post: 1228680, member: 18382&quot;]Senator Vitter has introduced a bill that would repeal the Presidential Dollar Coin Act of 2005:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>“Even though many in Congress, including myself,&nbsp; hoped that dollar&nbsp; coins would eventually save taxpayers money, it’s turned out to be one&nbsp; of those unnecessary and, quite frankly, wasteful programs that we&nbsp; should eliminate,” Vitter said. “Banks and credit unions are&nbsp; increasingly returning the dollar coins to the Federal Reserve because&nbsp; people don’t want them and aren’t using them. So the most sensible thing&nbsp; to do is for Congress to quit spending taxpayer dollars producing and&nbsp; storing the unwanted coins.”</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i></i>Well, if passed this would leave an incomplete Presidential set. Perhaps they could continue to finish the series by serving only collectors. They still strike the half dollar, but only for collectors. Maybe that&#039;s where the Presidential dollars will end up.</p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps they should think about eliminating the paper dollar instead. I also note that this applies only to the Presidential dollars and not the Native American dollars. I use Direct Ship to get Native American dollars every year and I spend them. I have to say, however, I&#039;ve never gotten one back in circulation and have never seen a circulated example of recent dollar coins.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://vitter.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressRoom.PressReleases&amp;ContentRecord_id=4850fb47-c4dd-2074-b4e9-80e5a92c55a2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://vitter.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressRoom.PressReleases&amp;ContentRecord_id=4850fb47-c4dd-2074-b4e9-80e5a92c55a2" rel="nofollow">http://vitter.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressRoom.PressReleases&amp;ContentRecord_id=4850fb47-c4dd-2074-b4e9-80e5a92c55a2</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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