The GAO recommends for the 7th time to switch to $1 coins...

Washington is only interested in spending money we don't have, not saving money.

Keep emailing your senators. Dollar coin alliance. It helps.
http://dollarcoinalliance.org/get-involved/

Still we like to kill trees and fill up our landfills, they say the used up shredded dollar bills fills 900 dump trucks every year.

You can't blame voters if they're not given the option. I would elect myself as president and people would vote for me if they only knew my policies. It's the same with the bipartisan system - they only bring up non-issues and get elected anyways. You're not given much choice at all in a democracy, otherwise you would have 30+ candidates and equal coverage for each of them. People in general are apathetic or ignorant with regards to politics - myself included.

Libertad, we do not live in a true democracy, we are a democratic republic. Having 30 different candidates in 30 different parties with all equal time is part of how the Nazi party came into power. With that many candidates the popular vote would get watered down so much that a party could aid with less than 20% of the votes. It gives to large of room for error. Other than that I agree with what Biggfredd said, they want to spend our money and not save us any. All politicians are in it for the money and that is our fundamental flaw I think. No more honorable men run, or ar allowed to run for the big office any longer.

Let's shift the discussion away from politics and back the the original subject.

I personally would love to see dollar coins completely replace the dollar bills. Paper $2, $5, $10, $20, and $100 bills are fine but the dollar should be a coin in my opinion. Shifting ANYTHING out of the hands of the Federal Reserve is a good move in my opinion.

It would not take 10 years though. The Mint could easily make a billion dollar coins each year. They made 940,870,000, in 2007, so I bet they could do more, if demand requested it.

Plus for 2010, they printed 1,856,000,000, $1 notes and 95% of notes printed are to replace existing ones. So really they only need to print 92,800,000 $1 notes for increased demand. A very small # for the US Mint to handle each year.
http://www.moneyfactory.gov/uscurre...figures.html




And I bet that 9.1 cents includes the cost of the $100 note, which is more expensive to make than the dollar note. I think I read somewhere that it is about 6 cents for the dollar note. I just couldn't find it.

And the dollar coin costs 18 cents to make.

Since the dollar coin costs triple what a dollar note costs, in about 3 years, there would be a profit.

It could easily happen next year. The US Mint already has the machines in place for it to happen. We just need the government to make the decision.

Because the coins are minted for face value unlike the dollar bills which carry a collateral of debt in order to be printed.