Taco Bell is so serious about its $2 Meal Deal (a burrito, chips and a drink) that it's going a step further than airing ads about it all the time. The Mexican food chain is now hoping to persuade the Federal Reserve to produce more $2 bills so that customers will be inclined to blow their Jeffersons at the fast-food restaurant.
And they want the public's help. To that end, Taco Bell has started a Facebook group to assist in its efforts to collect signatures on a petition that will "appeal to the U.S. Reserve to circulate more $2 bills." The chain's Facebook page has over a million fans so far (though the petition has generated only about 680 signatures at this point).
Even if Taco Bell's currency efforts fail, there's another perk for petitioners: Once they sign, they're also registered for "cool Taco Bell prizes."
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Roofelstoon
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Jun. 11, 2010 - 3:57 PM EST
Read all 1 comments in our forumThe Federal Reserve out to replace $1bills with $1coins but to keep grandparents happy (so they can put something in birthday cards to their grandkids) print $2 bills. Although I think most GP's nowadays probably put in $5.
Anyway, coins for bills would help with the deficit or the national debt, one of them, because of the seigniorage involved. Plus the reduced cost of having to replace $1 bills every 18 months.
That's my my 2¢ worth...
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