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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 26274861, member: 4626&quot;]Yeah it&#039;s an often repeated myth that bills higher than $100 were discontinued because they were worried about criminal activity; the real reason was it just wasn&#039;t necessary to transport that much physical cash anymore.&nbsp; Maybe they&#039;ll bring back the $500 some day, but... not holding my breath.&nbsp; Cash in general just isn&#039;t used as often; 92% of US dollars in existence only exist as numbers on a computer.&nbsp; Only 8% exists as physical currency and coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Always been a pet peeve of mine that transporting cash is often treated as &quot;suspicious&quot; for some reason.&nbsp; Yes criminals do that... but so do non-criminals, and the latter do it more often by far.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway don&#039;t want to risk getting &quot;political&quot; lol so I&#039;ll leave it at that.&nbsp; At any rate will just say I take a low view of inconveniencing law-abiding citizens for the sake of suppressing theoretical criminal activity.&nbsp; Punish the criminals in a way that doesn&#039;t put a higher burden on the law-abiding.&nbsp; I don&#039;t think that&#039;s a particularly controversial stance.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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