India's demonetisation of Rs. 500 and Rs. 1000 notes
While this sounds great on face value, I doubt this&#x27;ll solve the root of the problem. Why did we have so much black money in India? Coz people didn&#x27;t want to pay taxes. Why didn&#x27;t people want to pay taxes? Because they got nothing in return. Governments (esp Indian) have been historically self serving and power hungry. Tax money is usually either lost by PSUs loaning to the Mallyas of the world or other corrupt bullshit (overpaying for public infra, raw materials - contracts going to the highest briber etc.)<p>So unless that changes (more difficult than logistically declaring pieces of paper illegal), maybe people will start hoarding other stores of value in the future and figure out other ways to evade taxes. Am I being too cynical?