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Old 11-27-2013, 04:47 PM
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Originally Posted by baustgen View Post
Get rid of the penny and the paper dollar bill. Replace both with a small silver dollar coin the same size. Lots of problems solved.
We really should the $1 bill doesn't last long in circulation and destroying and printing is expensive a small $1 coin would make sense and if you eliminate the penny the slots in the cash registers would still have enough.
Other countries have done this why are we so resistant.

Think of how valuable all those penny collections we had as kids will become.
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