Comments on: US Mint Eliminates Credit Card Purchases in $1 Coin Direct Ship Program https://www.coinnews.net/2011/08/02/us-mint-eliminates-credit-card-purchases-in-1-coin-direct-ship-program/ CoinNews delivers the latest World and US coin news Tue, 10 Jul 2012 16:01:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: Workrounder https://www.coinnews.net/2011/08/02/us-mint-eliminates-credit-card-purchases-in-1-coin-direct-ship-program/#comment-36870 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 02:18:22 +0000 http://www.coinnews.net/?p=21015#comment-36870 Payments can be wire transfered from credit cards so this is not a solution to their problem.

]]> By: Munzen https://www.coinnews.net/2011/08/02/us-mint-eliminates-credit-card-purchases-in-1-coin-direct-ship-program/#comment-36535 Sun, 07 Aug 2011 03:20:40 +0000 http://www.coinnews.net/?p=21015#comment-36535 The solution is simple: Do what nearly 50 other countries have successfully done, and eliminate the $1 bill and issue $2 bills or $2 coins to reduce the number of coins needed to make change.

Oh wait, we can’t pass a budget, establish national health insurance, repair bridges and roads, or even “go metric”. So why should it be any less vexing for the pols in Washington to fix a broken coinage system?

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