Our story begins last month inside a busy Washington, D.C. subway station plastered with posters of giant dollar bills. One of them says: “Tell Congress to stop wasting time trying to eliminate the dollar bill.” Another asks: “Do you heart the dollar?”
Political fights in the nation’s capital normally involve billions or even trillions, not single dollars. What’s going on here?
This being Washington, there’s a back story. The $70,000 ad blitz was part of a small lobbying war over the fate of the dollar bill. On one side, leading a legislative charge to eliminate the dollar bill and replace it with a dollar coin, are Sens. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, and John McCain, R-Ariz.
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