Criminal Activity Has Often Been Associated With $100 Bills

Criminal organizations will always horde cash in the highest denomination bill available, if the hundred was pulled from circulation they would use $50's if the $50 was pulled as well they would use $20's. The governments logic against putting the $500 back in circulation is flawed, since inflation has driven the value of the $500 to less purchasing power than the $100 was when they decided to pull all the high denominations from circulation. More and more foriegn countries are using the Euro and the Swiss franc as reserve currencies because they have higher denomination bills (the 500 euro and 1000 swiss franc notes, ect) which makes it easier to store massive amounts of physical currency.