Eliminate the Dollar Bill to save money (Christmas, economy, pay)

[freightshaker]

Just wait a short time.. When hyper inflation kicks in a loaf of bread will cost $500 so you can just eliminate everything smaller than a $50 and round that.

[GTOlover]

Wow Canada has had the loonie 30 plus years now and also have the $2 coin the toonie since 1996

this is easy to put in pop machine than a doller bill

[legalsea]

Originally Posted by Icy Tea

Forget the dollar coin. Mint $5, $ 10 and $20 dollar coins. People would use them and they'd last forever. Impossible to counterfeit except by foreign powers and they can do that with paper currency anyway. There's a reason they don't. Maybe because it would be too hard to influence the money supply by printing. Just make the $20 coin the size of an older silver dollar, the $10 coin the size of a half dollar and the $5 coin larger than a quarter.

I think that is a very good idea. As history has shown, people simply have not liked any of the one dollar coins (I guess Susan B. Anthony was the first I was aware of, which was virtually the same size as a quarter), but I think trying out other denominations is worth a try.

I happened to be in England when they changed over to the one-pound coin. Some people grumbled at first (you always have people who grumble over any type of change), but it caught on well. I do like the British one-pound coin: very easy to 'feel' and distinguish from other coins in your pocket.

[noexcuseforignorance]

I'd keep the bill. Drinking in countries with dollar coins is just annoying. You end up with pocket fulls of change.

[Jaggy001]

Originally Posted by legalsea

I think that is a very good idea. As history has shown, people simply have not liked any of the one dollar coins (I guess Susan B. Anthony was the first I was aware of, which was virtually the same size as a quarter), but I think trying out other denominations is worth a try.

I happened to be in England when they changed over to the one-pound coin. Some people grumbled at first (you always have people who grumble over any type of change), but it caught on well. I do like the British one-pound coin: very easy to 'feel' and distinguish from other coins in your pocket.

It was Margaret Thatcher that got rid of one pound notes. At the time she admitted that, emotionally, she did not want to but that, rationally, it made far more economic sense to replace notes with coins. The UK now has a 2 pound coin as well. The Swiss have a 5 franc coin (around $5.50) and there are 2 Euro coins as well.

It is only a problem if you give people a choice. If they have a choice they will resist change. If they have no choice they will get on with it and get used to it.

[GTOlover]

Originally Posted by noexcuseforignorance

I'd keep the bill. Drinking in countries with dollar coins is just annoying. You end up with pocket fulls of change.

So Your ok if it cost more money to literally make more money

[GuyNTexas]

Originally Posted by Icy Tea

Forget the dollar coin. Mint $5, $ 10 and $20 dollar coins. People would use them and they'd last forever. Impossible to counterfeit except by foreign powers and they can do that with paper currency anyway. There's a reason they don't. Maybe because it would be too hard to influence the money supply by printing. Just make the $20 coin the size of an older silver dollar, the $10 coin the size of a half dollar and the $5 coin larger than a quarter.

Nonsense ... coins are far easier to counterfeit than the elaborate and intricate anti-counterfeiting measures employed in paper money.

There isn't a metallurgist worth his salt that couldn't take any coin and make a copy in his garage.

[GuyNTexas]

Originally Posted by Jaggy001

It was Margaret Thatcher that got rid of one pound notes. At the time she admitted that, emotionally, she did not want to but that, rationally, it made far more economic sense to replace notes with coins. The UK now has a 2 pound coin as well. The Swiss have a 5 franc coin (around $5.50) and there are 2 Euro coins as well.

It is only a problem if you give people a choice. If they have a choice they will resist change. If they have no choice they will get on with it and get used to it.

Or, one could view this as a confession that the money isn't worth the paper it's printed on.

[Wendipooh39]

I think that the government should do away with the dollar coin because they look like quarters and take up too much space....

[Sunnysee]

Originally Posted by juppiter

See this link : Dollar coin? It's time - latimes.com

The government could cut spending by replacing the dollar bill with a dollar coin. If they choose not to, they should eliminate the dollar coin altogether. Currently the treasury has vaults of excess dollar coins nobody wants.

We need to be a nation with either a dollar bill or dollar coin, having both does not work.

Instead of deleting the dollar bill, why don't they stop making the penny and round every price to the nearest nickel?? I'm so tired of having my purse or levi pockets become heavy cuz of the darn things.