Inflation is being driven by corporate price gouging

That's right, never let 'em see you sweat.

Opportunites for gouging like this don't come along every decade.

For quite some time before the Wage & Price Freeze was enacted in 1971, it was obvious that workers and those on fixed income were getting the shaft since wages were rising insignificantly (other than unionized labor) compared to spiraling prices.

There were TV commercials from the government urging Americans not to be "piggy", and it could be seen that "this" was supposed to be an effective effort to convince corporations not to raise prices? More so to persuade consumers that something was being done about inflation. After all whenever one of the commercials came on, you could see that the government was aware of how bad it was, and obviously was doing something about it; running ad's as persuasive as can be, right on TV.

People were supposed to be frowned upon for wanting a raise in pay during such difficult times, how could you?

Corporations certainly weren't going to raise prices after seeing all these commercials themselves, were they?

Then once a price freeze was actually being talked about, corps jumped into action like never before otherwise it was going to be too late. The less-powerful small businesses not as much.

Things were then frozen strategically before wages even had a chance to move the needle.