It stated simply, "Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of the Treasury and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System shall take such action as may be necessary to ensure that the number of Federal reserve notes in the denomination of $1 which are in circulation at any time does not decrease below the number of such reserve notes in circulation as of the date of the enactment of this Act."
In a February 24, 1995 speech introducing the Save the Greenback Act, Rep. Thomas M. Davis gave several arguments against phasing out the one-dollar bill:[1]
A great number of people's "pockets will be weighted down with heavy change instead of having a few bills tucked into their billfolds . . . one might suspect a conspiracy by clothing manufacturers in drafting the dollar coin proposal, as everyone's pockets begin to wear out."
Several polls have shown that Americans prefer the one-dollar bill to a dollar coin.
"[L]egislation designed to eliminate the dollar bill will an excuse by the special interests to raise prices on everyday items--a future sales tax, to be levied on all Americans but falling the hardest on those who can least afford it."
The failure of the Susan B. Anthony dollar demonstrated that introduction of a dollar coin does not save the federal government money.
"The costs of changing to a 1 dollar coin would be significant to many in the private sector including but not limited to the small town banks which would have to retool their coin counting, wrapping and sorting equipment--costs which would inevitably be passed on to their customers."
Notwithstanding these arguments, many people contend that $1 is far too low a denomination for a paper note at today's price levels and point to the example of virtually every other developed country, whose lowest-denomination banknotes are worth several times more. Most vending machines, for example, need to install dollar bill readers because their commodities have become more expensive due to inflation, a problem compounded by the bills' often being crumpled, torn, or otherwise unreadable.
Furthermore, the continuation of the dollar bill discourages any meaningful reform of the coinage, as people would be slow to use any dollar coin with the dollar bill still around simply out of habit,[citation needed] as proven with the Sacagawea dollar.[citation needed] Lastly, other countries, including the entire Eurozone, Japan, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, have successfully made similar transitions.
For comparison, here are the lowest-denomination banknotes of some other developed countries (with equivalent U.S. dollar value in exchange, as of August 23, 2015):
In contrast, poorer countries with weaker currencies, such as Argentina or Ukraine, often have low-valued bills because of inflation having eroded their value.
save, greenback, legislation, proposed, passed, united, states, congress, 1995, 1997, forbidding, phase, united, states, dollar, bill, stated, simply, notwithstanding, other, provision, secretary, treasury, board, governors, federal, reserve, system, shall, ta. The Save the Greenback Act was legislation proposed but not passed in the United States Congress in 1995 and 1997 forbidding the phase out of the United States one dollar bill It stated simply Notwithstanding any other provision of law the Secretary of the Treasury and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System shall take such action as may be necessary to ensure that the number of Federal reserve notes in the denomination of 1 which are in circulation at any time does not decrease below the number of such reserve notes in circulation as of the date of the enactment of this Act In a February 24 1995 speech introducing the Save the Greenback Act Rep Thomas M Davis gave several arguments against phasing out the one dollar bill 1 A great number of people s pockets will be weighted down with heavy change instead of having a few bills tucked into their billfolds one might suspect a conspiracy by clothing manufacturers in drafting the dollar coin proposal as everyone s pockets begin to wear out Several polls have shown that Americans prefer the one dollar bill to a dollar coin L egislation designed to eliminate the dollar bill will an excuse by the special interests to raise prices on everyday items a future sales tax to be levied on all Americans but falling the hardest on those who can least afford it The failure of the Susan B Anthony dollar demonstrated that introduction of a dollar coin does not save the federal government money The costs of changing to a 1 dollar coin would be significant to many in the private sector including but not limited to the small town banks which would have to retool their coin counting wrapping and sorting equipment costs which would inevitably be passed on to their customers Notwithstanding these arguments many people contend that 1 is far too low a denomination for a paper note at today s price levels and point to the example of virtually every other developed country whose lowest denomination banknotes are worth several times more Most vending machines for example need to install dollar bill readers because their commodities have become more expensive due to inflation a problem compounded by the bills often being crumpled torn or otherwise unreadable Furthermore the continuation of the dollar bill discourages any meaningful reform of the coinage as people would be slow to use any dollar coin with the dollar bill still around simply out of habit citation needed as proven with the Sacagawea dollar citation needed Lastly other countries including the entire Eurozone Japan Australia Canada New Zealand and the United Kingdom have successfully made similar transitions For comparison here are the lowest denomination banknotes of some other developed countries with equivalent U S dollar value in exchange as of August 23 2015 Highest value coin table Currency Highest value coin Lowest denomination banknote Australian dollar A 2 US 1 46 A 5 US 3 65 British pound 2 US 3 14 5 US 7 84 1 US 1 57 in Scotland only Canadian dollar CA 2 US 1 52 CA 5 US 3 79 Euro 2 US 2 28 5 US 5 69 Hong Kong Dollar HK 10 US 1 29 HK 10 US 1 29 Japanese yen 500 US 4 09 1 000 US 8 19 New Zealand dollar NZ 2 US 1 34 NZ 5 US 3 34 Swedish krona 10 kr US 1 19 20 kr US 2 39 Swiss franc SFr5 US 5 28 SFr10 US 10 57 Singapore dollar S 1 00 US 0 70 S 2 00 US 1 41 In contrast poorer countries with weaker currencies such as Argentina or Ukraine often have low valued bills because of inflation having eroded their value See also edit nbsp Money portal Save the Greenback Dollar United States coin United States 1 Coin Act of 1997 Efforts to eliminate the penny in the United States Coin CoalitionReferences editSave the Greenback Act House of Representatives February 24 1995 To require the continued availability of 1 Federal Reserve Notes for circulation permanent dead link http thomas loc gov cgi bin query z r104 H24FE5 609 permanent dead link Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Save the Greenback Act amp oldid 1090360882, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
