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Comment by mikeyouse | Hacker News Reader

Why would government services not be subject to the same cost pressures due to inflation as the rest of society?

Most of local and state gov expenditure is salaries (subject to inflation, particularly local housing) and financial support for low income residents (also tied to inflation and housing).

Because government is the reason for inflation.

The government should face a punishment for targeting constant inflation.

Thurston county WA collects my property tax. Thurston county should not have attacked Iran and caused a surge in energy prices. The county should have hiked rates earlier and more aggressively. Thurston county is out of control!

Government is not a borg. We elected the dumbest motherfucker in the country, he consolidated power, and we got incredibly inflationary (among other things...) policies. Local government is just along for the ride.

It's naive and short sighted to think American financial and geopolitical and inflationarh worse started with Trump

...ok, but he really let it rip. Israel has tried to get every president since Kennedy to attack Iran and nobody was dumb enough or compromised enough to do it until now. It has been bad for a while, and it's naive to think it's not particularly bad now. Every president post 9/11 has been shit, but i can't think of any other ones in that cohort who have had such an acutely negative impact on my day to day until now.

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