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 United States
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Property taxes usually fund a local government or a school district and property taxes tend to be measured in thousands of dollars, not hundreds. My county added a 1% "local option" to the sales tax a couple of years ago and now my property tax measures in hundreds of dollars... just barely.  |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Thanks biokemist6. That was more what I was getting at. We have property tax here, called rates, but there is no personal property tax.
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Rest in Peace
United States
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The solution to getting dollar coins to circulate isas simpleas when I presented it in a letter to the idiot in Coin World in 1971: Quit printing ones. If they stopped printing tens, everyone would use two fives. Ditto if you had to ask for tens and wait while they got them from the vault. Another way to get dollar coins is find the bank that supplies the post orifice for their cvending machines. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Quit printing ones.  We have a winner! Why spend millions on marketing dollar coins, plus all the hand-wringing over making the coin "appealing" if people have no real reason to switch? If the $1 note were discontinued, and if the Mint issued slugs stamped "$1", everyone would use them without blinking. |
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United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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 Me too.....but why or when IF EVER can/will this take place ? Do we all need to write our Congressmen.......a letter to Obama perhaps....... What will it take to bring on this much needed change I ask ! |
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United States
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Canada took 1 dollar bills out of circulation, guess what people there pay with the loonie.Works just fine
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United States
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..a letter to Obama perhaps. Dear Mr. President, please tell our Congressmen to stop taking bribes "incentives" from <insert beneficiaries of any selfish "cause" here>.  But seriously, maybe we can start a petition?  Or maybe we should send a letter to each of the three representatives we all have in Washington? Unless of course you are not a citizen of a US State, since I just noticed this is in the Main forum and not a US forum! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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i emailed mine but they aint intrestedin saving us money now they have a big blank check that they need to spend
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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We should actually go ask Congress to print $200, $500 and $1000! The Swiss are doing it, and surely can't be outdone by them and the Singaporeans too! (Singapore has $10000, $1000 and $100 notes, which convert out to US$6700, US$670 and US$67, respectively) |
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United States
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Valued Member
 United States
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When the Sacagawea dollar was getting ready to be minted for the first time, the mint contracted Double Eagle Market Development Co. (a PENgroup affiliated consulting firm) to promote the Dollar coin. That appeared to be a failure as I am thinking the current promotion will be. That was 10 years ago, maybe history does repeat itself. |
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Posted 11/10/2008 9:45 pm
