Make Room For The Dollar Coin By Getting Rid Of The Penny

Posted on 28 September 2011 by Sustainability Digest

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Pennies are so cheap that Andre Balazs covers the floor of the Standard Hotel with them. Image credit Lloyd Alter

Some have suggested that the drive to replace the dollar bill with a coin is driven by western mining interests, while the bill is being defended by eastern paper interests. But
Jim Kolbe, the former Republican Party Congressman from Arizona and now honorary head of the Dollar Coin Alliance behind the COINS act that would pull the dollar bill out of circulation in America. (see Pocket Change We Can Believe In: Republicans Introduce Bill To Retire Dollar BillRead the full story on TreeHugger


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