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For Americans

Should the US move to a dollar coin?

  • Move to a dollar coin get rid of dollar bill

    Votes: 7 30.4%
  • Keep dollar bill

    Votes: 16 69.6%

  • Total voters
    23
  • Poll closed .
Ok now I have to ask... what little things do you feel the need to not have a paper trail about if not drugs???? You know cheap hookers???? :lol:

Hookers are not cheap.... or so I am told.
 
Ok now I have to ask... what little things do you feel the need to not have a paper trail about if not drugs???? You know cheap hookers???? :lol:

Well they only take cash. :) Not so much of a need, more of privacy thing, corps don't need to track, follow, categorize and track every single thing I purchase. I refuse to use store "reward" cards too.
 
Should the US move to a dollar coin over the dollar bill?

Poll open for one year!

I am all in favor of a dollar coin but it would have to be a different size than a quarter. It was the size of the Susan B. Anthony dollar coin that killed it. Now a dollar coin about the size of an old 50 cent piece just might fly. I am also in favor of doing away with the penny. When I was stationed in Germany, we did so. The prices remained the same in the PX, but when one checked out if the last digit or cost ended in 1 or 2 it was rounded down to 0, 3 and 4 upped to 5, 6 and 7 down to 5 and 8 and 9 up to ten. No pennies.
 
Will Americans use them?

Canada dropped both the one and the two...the $2 bill was our great little secret....and other than suit pant pockets wearing out sooner it's been fine, sure makes a difference in doing laundry!

But then we have phased out the penny now and have also brought in polymer weave bills they say will last 50 to 70 years, can be washed for cleanliness and have all the cocaine removed....

so do that, it's kind of cool having money you can see through...the only problem is it disappears from your wallet as fast as ever
The last time I was in Alberta, someone joked the toonies weight too much to be popular with the strippers.:mrgreen:
 
I am all in favor of a dollar coin but it would have to be a different size than a quarter. It was the size of the Susan B. Anthony dollar coin that killed it. Now a dollar coin about the size of an old 50 cent piece just might fly. I am also in favor of doing away with the penny. When I was stationed in Germany, we did so. The prices remained the same in the PX, but when one checked out if the last digit or cost ended in 1 or 2 it was rounded down to 0, 3 and 4 upped to 5, 6 and 7 down to 5 and 8 and 9 up to ten. No pennies.

I still have a pile of Susan B. Anthony and Sacajawea coins lying around somewhere. Never used them.
 
I got some too, but where is the question.

Yeah I hear you, I'm sure they're with my 1976 $2 bills, lol. I do however know exactly where my dad has his stash of pre-1964 coins.
 
Yeah I hear you, I'm sure they're with my 1976 $2 bills, lol. I do however know exactly where my dad has his stash of pre-1964 coins.

I still have a couple Eisenhower dollar coins, now that size of dollar coin I think would be acceptable. 2 dollar bills, I have some of them around too. Matter of fact I have some silver certificates of different denominations. You don't see them floating around anymore either. Back when I was a kid, they abounded a plenty. Then collectors started scarfing them up. How about the JFK and Ben Franklin 50 cent piece. I don't have a Liberty half dollar, but I remember them.
 
What would be the point of that?
 
Keep the dollar bill. Coins are too cumbersome.


Someone mentioned earlier that bills and coins might become obsolete in a few decades. It does seem to be going that way. Perhaps a refillable cash card? I could probably go for something like that as long as there weren't any fees, penalties or interest involved. I don't think people should be charged for using their own money.
 
Should the US move to a dollar coin over the dollar bill?

Poll open for one year!

If the point were to make a new coin of silver or other PM worth a dollar, giving them actual value, then I could see it. Otherwise it's not going to happen.

If anything we might see the dissolving of cash altogether in the near future for electronic currency and credit. I heard one of the only reasons that hadn't occurred was though the gov't would surely get more tax money that gets hidden by small businesses, the economy would actually be more hurt by the loss of criminal financial transactions that occur almost exclusively in cash. I thought that had to be total BS, but apparently it's an actual factor because of the sheer volume.

Besides, they've made the Sacagawea dollar coin in 2000 to replace the Susan B.Anthony dollar coin and neither were particularly popular.
 
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