Should Andrew Jackson be celebrated on U.S. currency?

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Lincoln was actually at war with many of the Indian tribes at the time. (Not that he should have been.)

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

As for who I think should appear on currency, first of all 'legal tender' currency as such shouldn't exist in the first place, but pictures of well-known natural features and native flora and fauna would do.  Something politically-neutral that doesn't idolize individual persons.

This would be a good idea. Maybe something like what they have in Japan where there's some mixing up of cultural figures who are perceived as politically neutral and features of the landscape or famous buildings.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

As for who I think should appear on currency, first of all 'legal tender' currency as such shouldn't exist in the first place, but pictures of well-known natural features and native flora and fauna would do.  Something politically-neutral that doesn't idolize individual persons.

This would be a good idea. Maybe something like what they have in Japan where there's some mixing up of cultural figures who are perceived as politically neutral and features of the landscape or famous buildings.

Yeah, I wouldn't mind having Nathaniel Hawthorne on money.

Hawthorne unfortunately has some tangential association with antebellum  Northern 'appeasement Democrats' (he was close friends with Pierce), but somebody like Emily Dickinson or Herman Melville or Hart Crane would be awesome. Or Mark Twain!

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Well, we could always incorporate corn kernels and oil barrels on our currency:



These and other lulzy ideas for currency redesign located here.

I actually, legitimately love the 'Music Man', 'Life, Liberty etc.', and 'We're a Culture Not a Government' sets.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

These ones have suitably Orwellian slogans.

I wouldn't say they're Orwellian so much as meaningless pablum.