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One problem I see is American's think they have all these freedoms and if the gov'nent tried to do a switch to dollar coins instead of bills, everyone would throw a hissy-fit because they don't have the 'choice' anymore. I do see a big benefit though because dollar coins last so much longer than...

My guess is it probably goes back to when the US was first forming. They decided they wanted to be different than England, so they adopted a lot of different things like driving opposite side of the road, not using the metric system, etc.