{"id":31594,"date":"2012-12-02T18:19:41","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T01:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/02\/and-on-cue-the-annual-news-story-about-going-to-dollar-coins.html"},"modified":"2012-12-02T18:19:41","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T01:19:41","slug":"and-on-cue-the-annual-news-story-about-going-to-dollar-coins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/02\/and-on-cue-the-annual-news-story-about-going-to-dollar-coins.html","title":{"rendered":"And, on cue, the annual news story about going to dollar coins"},"content":{"rendered":"

Because it does seem like, once a year, some congressional committee or treasury committee produces yet another report about how dollar coins are cheaper to make and last longer and will therefore save us money, and that the only way to put them into circulation and have them accepted is to start simply taking dollar bills out of circulation.<\/p>\n

And every year, some congresscritters nod, intrigued, and some Treasure officers nod, sagely. And then someone says, "People don't like it" (as if there's an inalienable right to paper dollars) and the idea goes the way of the do-do, until the following year.<\/p>\n

If you're going to do it, do it.<\/i> I know the government doesn't like to make fundamental changes in its power that people are going to get temporarily cranky about, but, jeez, this is not only money-saving policy but proven by pretty much every other country out there.<\/p>\n

And once we're done with that, we can move on to adopting the metric system, too. \u00a0Which I think is probably just about as (un)likely.<\/p>\n

(h\/t +<\/span>Les Jenkins<\/a><\/span>)<\/p>\n

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