{"id":63497,"date":"2022-06-22T07:20:34","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T06:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=63497"},"modified":"2022-06-22T07:20:34","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T06:20:34","slug":"no-one-is-happy-about-inflation-except-the-government-and-they-must-be-because-theyre-doing-nothing-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2022\/06\/22\/no-one-is-happy-about-inflation-except-the-government-and-they-must-be-because-theyre-doing-nothing-about-it\/","title":{"rendered":"No one is happy about inflation except the government, and they must be because they&#8217;re doing nothing about it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just posted this short thread on Twitter:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-63498\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-22-at-07.16.12-550x202.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-22-at-07.16.12-550x202.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-22-at-07.16.12-768x282.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-22-at-07.16.12-600x221.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-22-at-07.16.12.png 1284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-63500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-22-at-07.06.03-550x232.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-22-at-07.06.03-550x232.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-22-at-07.06.03-768x324.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-22-at-07.06.03-1536x647.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-22-at-07.06.03-600x253.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-22-at-07.06.03.png 1804w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-63499\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-22-at-07.16.32-550x462.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-22-at-07.16.32-550x462.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-22-at-07.16.32-357x300.png 357w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-22-at-07.16.32-768x646.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-22-at-07.16.32-476x400.png 476w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-22-at-07.16.32.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As I have said time and again here and on Twitter as well as to anyone else who will listen, there is much the government could be doing about this crisis, but it seems to want to do nothing at all about it.<\/p>\n<p>Might it be that a drop of supply-side inflation suits this government's agenda very well?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just posted this short thread on Twitter: As I have said time and again here and on Twitter as well as to anyone else<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2022\/06\/22\/no-one-is-happy-about-inflation-except-the-government-and-they-must-be-because-theyre-doing-nothing-about-it\/\"><em> Read the full 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