Because less government services , especially welfare . But they tend to dole out more for corporate welfare . In Florida , in order to get any assistance , you have to fill out a 43 page form . <| sep |> Any PAL HDTV will support NTSC as far as I know . Also almost all PAL GameCube games support 60 hz , including the PAL Game Boy Player disc so you don ' t need an NTSC GameCube for 60 hz GBP playback . The official Game Boy Player software is very poor however and runs games at exactly 60 hz , which is not the native framerate of a Game Boy or GBA , causing frame stuttering . <| sep |> Your assessment of the goals and perspective is wrong the perspective of the economy from a productivity sense is to move large tracts of the black economy into the white one , which fills the government ' s tax coffers , gives them more capital to invest , enlarges the measured GDP by forcing stashed money to move and puts a large amount of money into banks making it a part of the capital markets instead of lying under beds and depreciating . The ' catching black money hoarders ' or ' stopping terrorism ' thing is an incidental because it is an emotive political issue , it gets disproportionate media attention and it gets people riled up . The economic positives of demonetization could have been achieved with a slow and phased out implementation , but this government chose to make it an emotive political issue , appealed to our basest instincts and chose a rapid implementation which created a cash crunch in the economy which caused economic activity in several sectors to plummet .