Taxing by inflating the money supply is so tempting politically because peoples’ first instinct is to blame the retailer for price changes. It’s not intuitive to identify the problem in the money.

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On the other hand, it's a lot less prone to nepotism...

Taxing by inflation is very efficient though. You don't need a massive bureaucracy for that, not to mention time saving

people definitely blame inflation on whoever is in power at the time though