Why the $250 bill would be good … For criminals!

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  NPR.

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  This is the Indicator from Planet Money.

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  I'm Waylon Wong.

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  And I'm Patty Hirsch.

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  A plan to create a new $250 note adorned with the visage

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  of President Donald Trump has attracted a lot of criticism and opposition.

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  And it's complicated.

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  The Federal Reserve, the Treasury and the Secret Service would need to agree for it to happen.

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  And then there's the idea that the note would depict the president.

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  This would contravene a law that prohibits the likeness of any living person from appearing on U.S.

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  Currency, bonds or securities.

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  So Congress would need to approve, too.

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  But there's one area of opposition that hasn't received much attention.

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  The idea that a $250 note would be a gift to criminals.

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  Drug dealers, arms smugglers, people traffickers, money launderers, they all love to use large denomination notes.

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  On today's show, we'll look at how they use them and how minting

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  a $250 note could really, really help one type of criminal in particular.

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  Spoiler alert, tax dodgers.

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  Damn tax dodgers.

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