The Wall Street Journal article was extremely one-sided. The article mentions the cost of transporting dollar coins, without mentioning the fact that we already do that with pennies--and they serve no purpose! There was also no mention of the time savings of using dollar coins instead of dollar bills. The coins are easier to count and faster to use during cash transactions.

The reason we are still stuck with the wasteful dollar bill is that our government is extremely timid about making the change. We should eliminate the penny and dollar bill, and the public will find out they will have fewer coins in their pockets, and what coins they have will be more useful. Just like every other country in the world has already found out.