Washington Post (October 28)
2011/ 10/ 30 by jd in Global News
Congress could save $5.5 billion over the next three decades by eliminating the $1 bill and replacing it with a coin. “You might think that the dollar-coin proposal would be a no-brainer…. You would be wrong: Instead of an easy compromise, the dollar-coin proposal shapes up as yet another illustration of how politically difficult it is to reduce any federal expense, no matter how modest.”