So, from time to time, I toy with the idea of running for office. Pretty sure I will run for Congress, at some point.

(Mainly, because I intend to have a fun time losing/venting my spleen at the Leviathan.)

There’s a constitutional requirement for Congress to coin money, and some dicta that the USCON may not authorize paper money, but SCOTUS wasn’t willing to go there.

I know there’s a strong push toward digital everything, but I think there is a requirement for DC to issue currency, which is useful for conducting business, and by discouraging the use of currency, they are failing their duty to coin money.

I think coins would make more sense - less loss to wear, easier to automate, and if coated with the right metals, unable to pass disease.

(F COVID, worry about how the world could survive a serious influenza.)

Coins are expensive to mint. It costs about 5 cents to make a $100 bill.

There is already a law on the books that allows the US gov to print currency without borrowing money from the Fed. Lincoln did it back in the day with the $5 "greenback". Kennedy was also proposing to the same thing at one time.

I hope there is more to your platform. Lol. Coins are a losing issue.

You would get more votes giving away free ice cream then pushing more coin money on society.

I use one dollar coins to tip the people at the drive through windows,
Keep'em in the center console.
And I tip the servers with two dollar bills on a regular basis.

I remember the game of "pitching pennies" that we used to play, as kids.

Standing maybe ten feet from a wall, each person tossed a penny; the one whose penny landed closest to the wall, won all the pennies.

Can't do that with a bill.

Would it be time to change over to the dollar and five dollar coins? Depends on who you ask.

Would it be better served to make them a good size as opposed to the Carter Quarter? Yes.

There has only been one country in the last 500 years that didn't mint its own coins.

I don't think coins will ever go away.

I've got enough heavy shit in my pockets now, no thanks.

Yeah no. When I get coins as change it goes to a jar at home. I hate having them bang around in my pocket. And I don’t leave coins in the car or truck lest it temp some crackhead looking for free shit.

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Originally posted by pedropcola:

You would get more votes giving away free ice cream

What flavor?

If anything we should stop the production of pennies and round up/down pricing to the nearest nickel

Nobody said coins would go away. The question is do you want more of them?

Personally that is an easy no. Would I love to have 100 dollar coins? Me? Yes I would. The little stuff needs to go. Pennies in particular. Quarters nickels and dimes are the jumping off point. Get rid of Pennie’s and makes coins worth something.

Maybe you do have my vote after all. Lol

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
If anything we should stop the production of pennies and round up/down pricing to the nearest nickel

He said "round down", ahhhhh-hahahahahahahaha....

You would be wasting a lot of your own coin running for office (pun intended).

I feel most people would want to eliminate coins rather than promote them.

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Originally posted by V-Tail:
I remember the game of "pitching pennies" that we used to play, as kids.

Standing maybe ten feet from a wall, each person tossed a penny; the one whose penny landed closest to the wall, won all the pennies.

Can't do that with a bill.

Not true. When I was in high school we used to pitch dollar bills in the ag department courtyard. A whole lot of it was about how tightly you folded or rolled you bill. It really sucked when you had a particularly good fold/roll and you muffed the toss - then someone else got your excellent tossing bill. We started with quarters, but someone had the bright idea of folding/rolling dollar bills and the game shifted.

The way inflation has been, the kids are probably tossing tens or twenties now.

The only new coin the US will release is a crypto Fedcoin, likely replacing cash in total.

My old man did an errand for a neighbor when he was 10 years old and that neighbor gave him a silver dollar. He carried it in his pocket every day, including going across Europe with Patton during WWII. Last time I saw it, it was worn completely smooth. It disappeared after his death. It was the only thing he possessed I would have liked to have kept after his death. A coin can have value beyond its face amount. I hope coins continue to be minted. But I dont they can replace paper money.

All I know is that I can't snort a line of coke with a $100 coin. Pass.

Mostly, in hinges on “hang the cronies, and incarcerate the bureaucracy.”

There are more serious things, but essentially, that the Leviathan is an overwhelming, and all consuming beast, and the only correct answer is “No,” and we need to aim for a controlled collapse of it, to head off an uncontrolled one.

I was thinking about currency, because I realized my grandfather’s job involved carrying $3k of the company’s money, at all times, in an era when a, very, nice house could be built for $25K.

The current system of currency is grossly impractical for the purposes of commerce, and I’m not sure that it meets the obligations under the USCON, unless it provides a practical means to buy houses, cars, land, etc.

Imagine dropping $1 coins in the thong of your favorite exotic dancer. That'll work.