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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SteveCaruso, post: 1512682, member: 37497&quot;]If your &quot;choice&quot; is to waste billions of our country&#039;s dollars and acres of space in our landfills just to keep those paper dollars <i>in circulation</i>, how can you possibly justify it? <i>Marginal convenience?</i> Sorry, you lose. That&#039;s not a &quot;preference&quot;: that&#039;s blatant irresponsibility. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s like saying, &quot;I&#039;m all for the choice of wearing seat belts. If you want to wear them, go ahead. Be my guest. But don&#039;t try to cram your preferences into any form of legislation in an attempt to force it on other people!&quot; The same whining ensued about mandatory seat belts for a few years. Then people grew up and got over it! And how many lives were saved? <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>More food for thought:</p><p><br /></p><p>~60 years ago, a dime was worth a modern dollar. A loaf of bread was 5 cents. No one complained about the inconvenience of coins to pay for their everyday purchases, and carrying &quot;coin purses&quot; was common.</p><p><br /></p><p>With the march of inflation, our dollars <i>are</i> worth pocket change. That loaf of bread is now not worth 1 nickel, but 2 paper dollars or more in some places. That value creep has been gradual enough that we&#039;ve gotten used to our paper waste. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>What we *really* should do is eliminate all of the bills under $20 and replace them with re-sized coins (it really is the $20 bill that&#039;s today&#039;s mainstay) as well as&nbsp; eliminate the penny and the nickel (which are both worthless and cost more than <i>TWICE</i> their face value to put into circulation).<i></i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Then</i> they&#039;d be more on par with their current purchasing power. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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