Inflation is not caused by government, but rather a lack thereof. It’s caused by unfettered capitalism & greed culture—where a CEO is duty-bound to feed the insatiable shareholder as much as possible. Your high grocery bill is going to record profits, not carbon tax.#greedflation
To add: all of the arguments I’ve seen are about carbon pricing on transport, heating the store, etc. These are Conservative taking points designed to confuse the ignorant into blaming the government for something caused by a *lack* of government regulation.
So in a way, I blame the government too. Not for carbon pricing though, for a lack of regulation on excessive and opportunistic profiting from basic human needs.
There’s a grain of truth to the argument that carbon pricing caused a rise in food prices (pun intended). But this is *before profits*. If profits were the same, and prices went up, I’d have to agree. But my point stands: profits are way up, *after* any effects of carbon pricing.
In case it needs to be clarified, the OP does not say, or even imply, that carbon pricing does not cause food prices to rise, despite this being how many are reading it. Of course it does, but it’s not even a majority of the reason for the increase.
Here’s some facts
https://twitter.com/iandmorrison/status/1575552733796773888
Unsurprising that most of the disagreement to this comes from accounts with libertarian or Bitcoin in the bio. A lot of people quoting Milton Friedman but conveniently leaving out the part where he says raising taxes is a way to balance government spending to avoid inflation.
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