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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Zak, post: 12793, member: 824&quot;]Don&#039;t say we can have both!&nbsp; <span style="color: red"><b>Your average Wal-Mart shopper can&#039;t handle it</b>.</span>&nbsp;&nbsp; Shoot, there is a huge number of the populus that actually believes that <span style="color: orange"><b>SAC</b></span>&nbsp; coins are <u>made </u> of gold and worth more than...well, a $1!&nbsp; Hence, they are hoarded and end up in dresser drawers like the <b>IKE</b> and <b>SBA</b>.&nbsp; Remember when the bureau of engraving spent $20 million dollars just explaining changes to the $20 bill so the public wouldn&#039;t freak out?&nbsp; If dollar bills ($1) were discontinued for coins, people would freak just the same...but they would get over it and move on.&nbsp; That&#039;s the only logical argument I can see NOT to replace $1 bill. </p><p><br /></p><p>What does it cost us tax payers to print and engrave $1 bills...$500 million per year for this paper currency with a distribution life no longer than a year and a half before they are pulled and destroyed.&nbsp; We all know that coins last 50 times longer.&nbsp; Gee, the return on the tax payers investment would make sense.&nbsp; 50 years against 18 months...let&#039;s see...makes too much sense!</p><p><br /></p><p>Okay, I&#039;ll admit it.&nbsp; I like dollar coins and think they would work IF the public didn&#039;t have a choice between coinage and the dollar bill.&nbsp; Put Lady Liberty on it, make it the color of a SAC with a size between a SAC and Kennedy and the world would be good.&nbsp; Don&#039;t get on to me about weight and all.&nbsp; Be honest, how often do you have more than four one dollar bills in your bill fold?&nbsp; If you do...<u>spend</u> them or <u>exchange</u> them for a $5 bill the next time you shop.&nbsp; Retailers are always looking for &quot;ones&quot; anyway.&nbsp; I always tip my breakfast eatery with SAC dollars whereby I am known as the &quot;golden&quot; tipper.&nbsp; They actually think they are getting more than what the SAC is worth.&nbsp; If it makes them feel good, so be it.&nbsp; It&#039;s funny watching a waitress show a SAC dollar to another thinking they struck gold.</p><p><br /></p><p>After all, we live in a day and age of debit/credit cards where it never fails for yours truly to end up behind some moran at the grocery store that pays for a box of cereal (in the &quot;express&quot; line mind you) with a check/credit/debit card.&nbsp; Sometimes, I wonder if people carry any cash/coins at all.&nbsp; But, my trials and tribulations in the express line is another story in this day and age of debits and credits.&nbsp; I thought that if he had some dollar coins in his pocket, I wouldn&#039;t have to wait for his check to be processed.&nbsp; [If I had dollars coins, I would be tempted to throw it people that pay for 30 items in the express line with a bogus check.]</p><p><br /></p><p>I travel a lot, and I have a weakness for carbonated drinks.&nbsp; Sure enough, I find a vending machine and the next thing I am doing is &quot;ironing&quot; out my paper dollars (since a 20 ounce bottle costs around $1.50 in most hotels).&nbsp; Afterwards, my hope is that the machine doesn&#039;t spit back the dollar at you.&nbsp; We all been there and thought:&nbsp; &quot;I folded that last corner perfectly...it should take this time.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Canada and Europe pulled their paper $1 bills.&nbsp; People grumbled at first, but now it works like a charm and saved millions for their tax payers.&nbsp; Sure, they spend the saved money elsewhere for their socialistic programs, but it did and does work well.</p><p><br /></p><p>Before I read the next post...I am <b>not </b> going after the $2, $5, $10, $20, or $100 paper bills.&nbsp; Matter of fact, they should discontinue the $2 bill altogether (my opinion) as most of use like numbers divisible by 5.&nbsp; <b>I am just going after the paper dollar bill...ONLY.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Let&#039;s pick out a design (many I saw posted at this site were beautiful and would work just fine), and use it for YEARS to come...not a run of 5 or 10 years...but for the next 50 years like coinage should be designed.</p><p><br /></p><p>Okay...those are my thoughts, why have a paper dollar bill when a dollar coin would work better (my opinion).&nbsp; What a country![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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