This has Social Justice written all over it. "How dare you say a dollar bill is equal to one hundred pennies! That's elitist and anti-democratic. The voices of the one hundred pennies demand to be heard."
And people wonder why public school math scores keep sinking. Plus what about repercussions? How would this effect other sciences like physics? How would you then express Einstein's most famous theory?
A pox on those who wish to get rid of the equals sign. A pox and publicly visible boils I say!