“But we can’t include food and energy inflation when figuring gvt benefits for Social Security recipients. Oh, no, we can’t do that”
Things we actually use are excluded from that calculation. Orwellian logic.
They won’t do it because then they can’t get away with a measly 1.5% or even 0%. They’d prolly have to make it 5% or so and Soc Sec would go bankrupt just that much faster.