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Re:India's Misguided War on Cash by jacobolus on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @08:09AM (#13013826)
Using $20 bills wouldn’t make your all-cash transactions impossible. It would just make e.g. tax evasion, drug purchases, money laundering all a bit more cumbersome and conspicuous.

The burden would fall heavily on illicit transactions, while only slightly impacting most cash users, if at all.

(I’m not advocating for this, merely linking it as topical to the discussion.)

See Ken Rogoff’s NBER paper http://scholar.harvard.edu/rogoff/publications/costs-and-ben...

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Re:India's Misguided War on Cash by lostboys67 on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @09:58AM (#13014532)
Quiet a lot of Europeans buy cars in cash why not ban private ownership of gold and silver coins while your at it as well.
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Re:India's Misguided War on Cash by shiven on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @01:11PM (#13016060)
You mean like this?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1933_double_eagle

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Re:India's Misguided War on Cash by mullen on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @04:44PM (#13017941)
Poor example. The government produced a coin and then ordered all of them melted down but 2. When 20 showed up, it is clear they were stolen and the government claimed their property. As a tax payer, I think this is a good idea.
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