Swapping US $1 bills to coins would save 5.5b over 30yrs

Or, alternatively, we could cut defense spending by 1% and save that much money every year.<p>Better yet, lets cut defense spending by 50% and save $300B per year. Honestly, other than the big defense contractors, nobody would ever notice or care (well, people would notice that our economy suddenly had 300B of extra cash in it every year).

We already have $1 coins. There was a recent push to get people to accept them. Didn't seem to work.<p>At this point, we should move to contactless cash cards that can be used like some credit cards but without transaction fees. Reducing the need to carry cash will also save money, and time. Wait, I've got a penny here somewhere.

Oooh. 5.5 billion /pinky raised to mouth/. Add a zero or two and cut the years in half and you may have something. That kind of money in this kind of economy is rather inconsequential.<p>Anonymous electro cash. That's the win. I am not a fan of a cashless future if we lose our anonymity in the process.

coins work well for us here in England, might not be so great for strippers though.

If you want to save more?? switch to debit/plastic. It would be greener then paper OR coins and harder to steal (although only slightly)

Oh good--- I still have a change purse!

In 30 years, we'll be having this conversation about getting rid of the $100 bill.

5.5 billion, that's a LOT of money, that's almost 0.2% of the annual federal budget.<p><i>sigh</i>