Is honoring Harriet Tubman with her face on the $20 bill worth the $911,600,000 that it will cost the American tax payer?

(Sorry for the typo in the meme).

SPC Michael Mullins What are you talking about. This is taken right from the Treasury website.

On December 16, 2015, the Board approved the 2016 currency budget totaling $737.4 million, which represents an increase of $19.4 million, or 2.7 percent, from the approved 2015 budget, and an increase of $44.8 million, or 6.5 percent, from estimated 2015 expenses

If you go to the site and look at the breakdown of expenses you can see that the budget does, indeed, include printing costs.
http://www.federalreserve.gov/foia/2016currency.htm

SPC Michael Mullins - also this is the first year since the changing of the 100 dollar bill where the Federal Reserve printed less than 2.5 mil $100 bills since the change and with a life span of 15 years on a $100 dollar bill and the fact that in 2013 there were only 8 billion in circulation the number should be roughly the same if we were only replacing the worn out bills but we now have 10.8 billion in circulation. My number may be a little high but not over exaggerated by much.

You are not taking into account the fact that the cost of replacing the printing plates as they wear, is already figured into the expense budget. Simply replacing the plate with a Tubman instead of a Jackson only involves the initial cost of the redesign. Once the final design is in place, the price to produce replacement plates is going to be the same. It does not matter if the new plate has Jackson, Tubman, Reagan, or Scrooge McDuck as the design

The Change will const very little, the bill will be redesigned at the same time no matter who is on it, simply for security reasons,. New art and plates already have to be produced to the difference in cost is miniscule. The twent was orginaly sceduled to be redesigned with Jackson on it in 2020 replacing him with Tubman will lost nothing

Unless you think it is more expensive top draw a hero that a genocidal thug?

21 Years in Electronic and Information Warfare, Listening to Radio Moscow and Voice of American but that beats the best Whopper they ever told.

PO1 William "Chip" Nagel - Try taking 5 minutes looking up the cost to print a 20 dollar bill and the look up the number currently in circulation as with any change in currency the old is general phased out within a few years by banks. So I will just give you the numbers and you can verify if you would like. As of 2015 according to the U.S. mint there were 8.6 billion 20 dollar bills in circulation, also according to the U.S. mint it costs the Govt 10.3 cents to print a 20 dollar bill. In other words it will cost 911,600,000 to print 8.6 billion 20 dollar bills and it will probably take 5-7 years for the U.S. mint to fully phase out the old bills as their circulation life is calculated at 7 years maximum. Simple research my friend and it takes less than 10 mins.

What money uis being wasted on this, id Tubman more expense to engrave than Jackson?

The money wasted would be creating brand new printing plates. We already have 20 dollar bills in circulation. Creating new ones for appearance sake is a waste of money. Like I said, we need to learn how to trim the fat and this is a waste of money.

THe plates have a limnited lifetime and need to be modifired p periodical anyway for security reasons, The C 20$ bill will change its face on the same date as it would as if The Genocidal thug was still featured. Cherey will be zero cost difference