Would you use dollar coins to save government money?

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Shakey

Shakey

It's not that coins are hard to carry. It's that people hate change(not the coin change), and won't do it unless forced to. They need to just quit printing the dollar bill and be done with it.
 
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Chibibar

Shakey said:
It's not that coins are hard to carry. It's that people hate change(not the coin change), and won't do it unless forced to. They need to just quit printing the dollar bill and be done with it.
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Heh. I think that is one of the problem of our government. They say they will do one thing (using coins and mint them) but still print dollars (doing stuff the old way) and end up wasting taxpayers' money doing both all this time.

You would think piles and piles of coin in the vault would suggest that.
 
Chad Sexington

Chad Sexington

It's not going to happen because 'coins are hard to carry'? Uhm... At least Canada, the whole of the European Union, and I'm pretty sure Mexico all have $1/$2 coins, and somehow -perhaps we Canadians are just made of hardier stuff- we have survived.

I'm sure there are many arguments to be had over this, I don't know them, but I think 'coins are hard to carry' is basically a non-argument in light of the fact that many nations already do this and it hasn't caused them to grind to some kind of catastrophic halt.
 
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Chad Sexington said:
It's not going to happen because 'coins are hard to carry'? Uhm... At least Canada, the whole of the European Union, and I'm pretty sure Mexico all have $1/$2 coins, and somehow -perhaps we Canadians are just made of hardier stuff- we have survived.

I'm sure there are many arguments to be had over this, I don't know them, but I think 'coins are hard to carry' is basically a non-argument in light of the fact that many nations already do this and it hasn't caused them to grind to some kind of catastrophic halt.
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Heh. I use to commute on the rail in Dallas (not the greatest but useful sometimes) the machine ONLY give out coins change. You should hear the complaint. It was so bad all the machine was refit to accept CC (which was silly NOT to have it in the first place and accept cash only)

Edit: Since the coin was minted, the lack of use cause huge surplus/storage of them. I remember reading an article about people hate using coin dollars in the U.S.
 
Necronic

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Dollar coins are fine. I actually like the whole Euro coin thing. Makes finding change in your pants more exciting.
 
Frank

Frank

sixpackshaker said:
But $1 coins make tipping at strip clubs more difficult... and exciting.
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They do little games where you try to knock a poster or something off of their cooch with a loonie here. It's really, really creepy.

The switch from bills to coins here was relatively painless. It's a very trivial adjustment.
 
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Frankie Williamson said:
They do little games where you try to knock a poster or something off of their cooch with a loonie here. It's really, really creepy.

The switch from bills to coins here was relatively painless. It's a very trivial adjustment.
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I think so. I hardly use cash. I always use by Debit card.

If the government do want to switch, they should just stop printing dollars and just use all those coins they already minted.
 
Shegokigo

Shegokigo

sixpackshaker said:
But $1 coins make tipping at strip clubs more difficult... and exciting.
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Apologies in advance:

Scene: Strip Club
Hour : Toward the end of the night and most patrons are inebriated out of their minds

Customer comes up to the stage, with a pocket full of $1-2 coins, throws them at the stripper screaming "MAKE IT RAIN!!". Stripper is pelted by heavy coins and loses her balance. Bruises were visible the next day, both from the fall and from the coin barrage.
 
Adam

Adam

Shegokigo said:
Apologies in advance:

Scene: Strip Club
Hour : Toward the end of the night and most patrons are inebriated out of their minds

Customer comes up to the stage, with a pocket full of $1-2 coins, throws them at the stripper screaming "MAKE IT RAIN!!". Stripper is pelted by heavy coins and loses her balance. Bruises were visible the next day, both from the fall and from the coin barrage.
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Strip bar in Calgary does this already. Girls make their way around the stage lying on their back and encourage gentlemen to throw their coins into their....target. I felt ashamed to be there; where's the classy strip bars!?!
 
Frank

Frank

Adammon said:
Strip bar in Calgary does this already. Girls make their way around the stage lying on their back and encourage gentlemen to throw their coins into their....target. I felt ashamed to be there; where's the classy strip bars!?!
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EVERY strip club in Edmonton does this shit.

The funniest part are these crazy swinging magnets they have to pick up all the coins.
 
North_Ranger

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Chibibar said:
Coins are hard to carry.
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Oh please, I bet your beltbuckle weighs more than a few dollars' worth of change in your wallet :p

This message has been brought to you by Europeans with muscular thighs from lugging around coins between the value of 0.05-2€.
 
phil

phil

90% of my transactions are with my card anyway. It would take getting used to but I'd be fine with using coins. Although usually when I use cash I'm getting a 20 from the bank to spend on a night of drinking. Unless they're going to start making 20 dollar coins I'm not sure how much I'd actually use them.
 
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Dubyamn

Is the dollar coin an actual proposal from the super committee? Cause if so we should just take the across the board cuts to everything cause that committee is garbage.
 
GasBandit

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Toss me in with the people who don't use actual currency any more. It's all going on the credit card, cause I get rewards.
 
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Biannoshufu

"Gimmie your money!"

"Ugh, sure.....take it."

"Jesus, this thing is heavy! How much is this?"

"Six fifty."

"Screw this. Keep your fucking money."
 
GasBandit

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Oh, I should chime in too, that showing my empty wallet to a pandhandler yesterday got me out of having to be charitable :D electronic money FTW.
 
Espy

Espy

GasBandit said:
Toss me in with the people who don't use actual currency any more. It's all going on the credit card, cause I get rewards.
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You know whats funny? All those "rewards" on your cards? You pay for those. They are part of the cost for every CC charge. So every reward just forces businesses to raise prices.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Espy said:
You know whats funny? All those "rewards" on your cards? You pay for those. They are part of the cost for every CC charge. So every reward just forces businesses to raise prices.
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Well, I figure it balances out because I stopped shoplifting.
 
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