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

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I work in a retail store and I would say that 50% blame the retailer and 50% blame the politician.