The Blind Leading the Blind

Dallas Blog | Tara Ross:

“In 2001, the American Council of the Blind filed a lawsuit alleging that U.S. currency discriminates against the blind because a blind person can¿t tell, by touching a paper bill, whether it is a $1, $10, $20, or some other denomination.”

Ed Cognoski responds:

We ought to have done this decades ago, like every other nation on the planet, none of whom found it financially burdensome. If cost is really an issue, consider this. The US continues to print wasteful $1 notes. Put a stop to that and the money we save will pay for retooling costs for modernizing the rest of our currency. A sensible currency design will increase efficiency and decrease errors throughout our economy. Even a blind man can see that.