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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Zak, post: 22171, member: 824&quot;]Stated before and I will state it agaiin...</p><p><br /></p><p>The average $1 bill lasts only 16 months and costs US taxpayers over $500 million per year to produce.&nbsp; Coins last at least 50 years and would work IF there was no choice between bills and dollar coins.&nbsp; As for that waiter that may make $50 to $100 in tips, they can always exchange it for larger bills.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ever try to put a wrinkled dollar bill into a Coke machine?&nbsp; I would rather use the SAC dollar instead of looking for an ironing board when I need my soda fix.</p><p><br /></p><p>Look, $1 bills were removed in Canada and Europe and people balked at the idea at first...then everything fell into place and dollar coins now work just fine.&nbsp; It has saved millions of dollars and nobody wishes they had paper dollars anymore.&nbsp; Of course a&nbsp; nice design would be nice:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://home.earthlink.net/~smalldollars/dollar/2000ml.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://home.earthlink.net/~smalldollars/dollar/2000ml.html" rel="nofollow">http://home.earthlink.net/~smalldollars/dollar/2000ml.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Sure would be better than putting ALL of the Presidents on dollar coins, which Congress is proposing!</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the penny...everybody knows that retailers will always round up and even in this day and age with gas prices over $2 dollars, how many of us look for that station to save that extra penny?&nbsp; It is here to stay and&nbsp; I doubt it will go away.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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