Stan Collender defends his anti-dollar coin argument:
To John Bohn and everyone else who said all we have to do is eliminate the dollar bill so retailers and everyone else would have no choice but to use the coin…Are you really suggesting that the federal government mandate that merchants incur an additional cost so that its own deficit would be smaller? Remember…it costs a great deal more to a retailer to have coins instead of dollar bills delivered because of the additional weight. The amazing thing to me is that anyone who claims tea party credentials, as the sponsors of the legislation that would create the new dollar coin do, would even consider promoting something that businesses would likely consider the equivalent of a new federal tax.
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