The 2.5% is a Theft target. The way they talk about 2% or 2.5% is to normalize it, build theft into the system. This is how "magical money computers" can work.
To get zero inflation, need to return to PM-based financial system, and expose and end fractional reserve bankstering.
Problem is, the US has always struggled. Sound money proponents in a financial war with "inflationists", those that prefer Elastic money. The latter has been winning, as now we are almost all fiat.
Problem is, the US has always struggled
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We had little to no inflation prior to Nixon taking the US off the Gold backing of our paper currency….printing trillions of paper currency since then was/ is the death of all monetary systems…..as we are witnessing.