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Then the solution is simple: tax the rich.

That's not enough to move the needle. I think we are seeing "inflation" due to short term supply chain stop and restart.

As incomes are still fixed and there are cheaper substitutes for almost everything you want to eat people will modify and reduce.

Them having the cash doesn't necessarily mean they spent it; plus, they could have spent it on deleveraging their debts (and not on consumption).

I tend to agree that all the inflation we are seeing right now is supply chain related (with the one exception of graphics cards - the liquidity injected into the system probably made price of crypto go up which accelerated the demand for GPUs, so the GPU issue is both a supply problem & demand problem)