This is unreal. Actual prices are through the roof.
They’ve found their formula for keeping inflation in check —
take discretionary money out of people’s pockets and that way they can’t buy those expensive avocados
These a$$hole$ love rising prices.
All the numbers go up, and they can claim that the stock market has risen.
They use it as an excuse to raise taxes.
It guts normal peoples’ savings, reducing them to zero, making us dependent on the government.
The ruling elite’s pay and pensions rise, according to the rate of inflation.
Social Security recipients get a pi$$-a$$ increase, and the government crows about it.
For the ruling elite, inflation is the gift that keeps on giving.