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U.S. Senator John McCain suggests strippers can make more money with introduction of $1 coin

The United States is finally catching up to Canada when it comes to being more efficient with printing money.

Last month, several Senators — including former Republican presidential candidate John McCain — introduced the Coin Act which, if passed, would completely replace the U.S. dollar bill with a dollar coin by 2018.

Yes — the measure would literally save the U.S. government billions of dollars.

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But it's a fringe benefit of a dollar coin that's getting a lot of attention south of the border this week.

According to the The Hill, reporters asked McCain to respond to a 2011 complaint by a Washington DC strip club owner who so 'eloquently' said: "You can’t put a coin in a garter belt.”

When pressed about the predicament facing scores of the country’s skin-baring and bill-collecting women, McCain responded without missing a beat, “Then I hope that they could obtain larger denominations.”

The 76-year-old lawmaker began answering another reporter’s prying questions before cracking a smile and hollering to ITK down a Capitol hallway, “Fives, tens, one hundreds!”

Jeremy Rossier, a manager at the No. 5 Orange strip club in Vancouver suggests that there's some truth to McCain's theory.

He says that in British Columbia, at least, girls don't accept coins.

"The girls get bills 5 and up," he told Yahoo! Canada News.

Rossier notes, however, that some clubs in northern B.C. and in Alberta have gotten creative with loonies and twoonies.

"You hear of girls traveling up to Fort St John and throwing out posters, t-shirts and such for tips and playing games where the customers aim at a target with the coins," he said.

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According to an article at Ezinearticles.com, ex-stripper Mia Robbins wrote that an average stripper in the U.S. takes home approximately $40,000 a year working 3-4 nights a week

In Canada, Wow Jobs claims that the average salary of strippers — before tips — is $26,815.

(Photo courtesy of Reuters)

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