Golden Dollars

Just as I believe in cheapness in my own life, I believe the government should be cheap. I'm a proud Democrat, so no I'm not prepared to see the roads go to hell or kick mentally ill people out onto the streets for the sake of cheaper taxes, but I do believe government has a duty to run as efficiently as possible. And so in the sake of efficiency I'm firmly in favor of higher demonination coinage. I'd like to see the dollar coin used as much as possible. Not only will the U.S. Treasury make loads of money from coin collector's with these coins, but if they ever replaced the dollar bill tons of money could be saved simply because a coin lasts longer than a paper bill. According to this article the U.S. would save $500 million a year if the switch was made. Let's make a five dollar coin for that matter!



To promote the dollar coin I have decided to launch a one man effort to get the thing into circulation. I'm going to try to use the coin as much as possible. I think I will get a lot of questions about it.

Today I also redeemed some more My Coke Rewards points for another year of Popular Mechanics. They've expanded their program to every Coke product, but the "price" of a magazine subscription went from 96 points to 120 points.

Found: 5 pennies (4 at Shaw's, 1 outside Sovereign Bank), 1 dime (near vending machine at work)

Redeemed: $3.05