Posted on 07/25/2013 12:12:24 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Sen. John McCain has a wish for any exotic dancers who might feel the pinch from legislation he’s backing that would do away with the dollar bill and replace it with a dollar coin: Shake what your momma gave you and make more moolah. …
When pressed about the predicament facing scores of the country’s skin-baring and bill-collecting women, McCain responded without missing a beat, “Then I hope that they could obtain larger denominations.” …
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How many times do we learn this lesson ?
The NSA thanks you for making it easy for them.
Just think of all the people who didn’t wash their hands who touched these bills before you got them????
What McCain said is that he wants the bigger denominations to be so fouled as the $1 bill is currently alleged to be, you know.
People seldom use them, but they are made.
The reality is that dollar coins have never been wildly popular, even in the days of the cartwheels, at least since the greenback made its debut.
To the extent that any cash still makes sense, $1 coins are long overdue.
Here in Canada, we like our Loonies and Toonies. A $5 coin is likely coming soon. Meanwhile, we just axed the penny. As another poster mentioned, if you compare the value of money today vs (say) the 1950’s, we should even have $20 coins — and probably no coin below a quarter. It’s either that, or have a currency revaluation — where you’d exchange (say) $50 for one Newbuck.
BTW, while a $1 coin weighs more than a $1 bill; it also weighs a lot less than four quarters. So long as we use coins for vending machines and parking meters; $1, $2, and even $5 coins will prove to be pocket savers.
I keep one quadrillion dollars (Zim) in my desk drawer (ten 100 trillion dollar notes) as a reminder that paper is just paper in the end.
The NSA thanks you for making it easy for them.
Correct, with the exception of the Halves (and dimes and quarters) in the 90% Silver Proof Sets issued by the US Mint. Those have to be bought from the mint (or a coin dealer) and are not general issue for circulation.
Completely insane. How do you possibly fold a coin in half?
That thong could hold the contents of a Wells Fargo truck.
I really wish the Pepsi machine at work accepted $2 bills :^(
I went to a strip club in Canada once, about 5 years ago. It really bothered me that the guys were tossing coins on the stage, LOL. But Canada has $1, $2, $5, and $10 coins, if I recall correctly. McCain meant that he was hoping for the strippers in the US to start getting more Five dollar bills, but $1 coins would just make more noise in the US strip clubs. It won’t change the economics of supply and demand on price-per-boob.
Isn’t that reserved for Clinton’s cigar?
Sounds like a marketing opportunity.
Something like 85% of paper money has been found to contain trace amounts of cocaine as well.
And BPA also.
How many times has the dollar coin been tried and rejected by the general public????
This is just another example of the idiocy coming from this fool...............
IS THERE ANYBODY IN THE STATE OF ARIZONA THAT HAS ONE OUNCE OF INTELLIGENCE? WHY DOES MCCAIN CONTINUE TO GET RE-ELECTED?
That’s what they do in Canada... or so I’ve heard.
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