Simple Fixes for Government Spending
Pennies Cost Too Much
Pennies cost more than they’re worth, and the tax payers are the ones shelling out for them. Canada and Australia have already discontinued the one-cent coin. In America, the annual losses after value are more than a hundred million. It is the easiest math in the nation. Discontinue them.
Dollar Coins
The switch from dollar bills to dollar coins would save approximately 4.4 billion over the next 30 years. This is because bills are so easily torn and otherwise destroyed and require so much upkeep from circulation.
Change the Font, Save Money
The government could save $136 million every year by simply changing their legal printed font from Times New Roman to Garamond. At merely 14 years of age, Suvir Mirchandani studied the differences between fonts and the costs in toner, submitting his findings that were later published in “Journal for Emerging Investigators” and then spread like wildfire in one article after another. The government has yet to implement the change.
What’s a Billion?
Nine zeros behind a one is easy to write, but a billion is a difficult number to comprehend. What is one billion in 2012?
A billion seconds ago, it was 1981.
A billion minutes ago, the “current era” had barely celebrated its first century (111 C.E.).
A billion hours ago, our ancestors were still living in the Stone Age.
A billion days ago, no-one walked on the earth on two feet.
A billion dollars ago was spent in less than one and a half hours at the current rate of government spending in the United States.
This article is dedicated to the late Michael Mahon Hastings, a true freedom fighter and journalist for BuzzFeed and Rolling Stone.
