Actually Spending Dollar Coins

The Australian gold colored solid aluminum bronze $1 coins are 1 gram heavier than their American counterparts.

The Australian $1 coins form an essential and heavily used part of the currency system. Used by everybody in all coin transactions. Very convenient.

Wrong! The Constitution gives the government (Congress) the authority to coin money. It says nothing about having a right to a one cent coin or a one dollar note. If they want us to get rid of the cent and force us to use one dollar coins they certainly can! The one dollar note did not even exist until the founders were long dead and buried.


Correct.

Actually, dollar coins will take off if they remove the choice by eliminating the one dollars notes. However, those are two valid reasons why they have not done it yet.

If someone did and I was their competition, I would always round down and take away their business since my prices would always be lower.



This is true today. It was not the case in the past because back then coins had significant purchasing power. Todays coins are for all practical purpose worthless compared to 50 years ago. Back then you didn't need much in the way of paper money because a few coins would take care of your needs.

Yeah, uh, but FORCE and COERCE are synonyms.



As would I.

Places around me round down all the time. I must have said this before, but rounding cash down makes sense when one realizes that the transaction does not incur a fee like credit and debit cards do.

Or we could just do a virtual shift by eliminating the cent and nickel while replacing the one, two, and five dollar notes with coins. The dime is the new cent, the ten dollar note is the new "single."

We might be able to save the nickel with a composition change (which cannot be said for the cent), but it only delays the inevitable. I would much rather see the cent and nickel go NIFC.

True and false. Semantics vs theme/meaning/limitations imposed by the Constitution.

They have the authority to make our medium of exchange - which is technically written as "coin." I personally don't play games of semantics to create validity for a point. If bills had been the medium of the day, would the wording used have been "produce" instead of "coin?" We don't know.

Unlike modern programming of the last 40 years or so though, the PEOPLE set up the government as the PEOPLES' SERVANT. The PEOPLE have made it VERY clear they don't want dollar coins nowadays. The government coercing in the form of medium is against the spirit of what America was founded on.

To me the issue is one which has never been answered despite asking it. Why on earth would any American want the government to force us to use what the masses have said they don't want - especially when there are other, viable options proven to save money such as polymer notes? Do those advocating this CRAVE government coercion that much? There are plenty of other countries which will gladly oblige. The American spirit of what government is supposed to be and do is much more precious, important, and costly to throw away over my own personal preferences.

The issues put forward such as tax dollar savings, weight issue, etc. have all been thoroughly handled before in threads of this nature. Do the homework... its here on CCF...

Weight is, was, and will be an issue - rely upon past findings on this subject (posted on CCF even), not personal desires.

Costs for the common man will go up due to services increasing costs, the psychological issue of a dollar becoming just "pocket change" etc. History has proven these cost increases, and the facts behind the increases is documented in former threads where I did the research and also took polls from the Canadians who went through this years ago (as did I by living close to Canada and frequented there).

Some - not near what the government study said, tax dollars are saved but the problem was they did not include hidden costs such the natural devaluation of history during the time of the changeover,
and costs of mass transporting metals vs paper. Again, personal costs go up while fewer-than-stated tax dollars, on paper, are saved to be wasted on other government spending.


Like I said - its all on CCF from past threads. Relying on opinion is not optional when facts are desired. And one more thing that is on CCF is the cost per person of the wasted money in the unwanted dollar coins already minted and not being used. The grand toital loss to each of us was 6 cents. Just one gallon of gas can fluctuates by this overnight sometimes - so the personal cost of gas from one week to another costs likely 20 times (twenty gallon tank) what a one time loss of scrapping this metal would be.


It is all in previous threads.

Can they force us against our will? Yes... they can emulate socialist/communist/dictatorial systems and force us to do about anything. But American actually wishing for this is a sad thing when there are options which would allow the people to have their way.

Again, why would any American desire the government to force the people into something when there are proven alternatives that will keep the people having what they want and preserve a patriotic theme to the government's function and powers? I wish America was what it once was.

And... this point is where previous such threads have been shut down...