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Megacorps will get away with keeping their prices this high, as long as the gov keeps funding these "relief" payments.

It's using taxpayer money to artificially maintain prices high.

But we used taxpayer money to first inject trillions into the top of the economy. And then when the inevitable happens, we can’t just throw our arms in the air “because inflation!” — that’s a great way to make sure that the bottom of the economy will suffer tremendously due to all this.

Because their income hasn’t increased nearly as much as the amount of inflation that occurred.

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