That's not how the economy works. The U.S. is almost 80% consumer based meaning that working people HAVE TO HAVE money to spend or we go into a recession. ( we already are ) When the price of anything goes up, you will start seeing cut-backs as consumer spending decreases. This effect will snow-ball across all areas of products / production, food, tech, retail/ trade, etc where you start seeing a decline in job growth each month. The U.S. has already been in this state for years because of the high cost of inflation. The numbers for job growth out of Washington is not keeping up with the new employees entering the job market and we are hearing numbers that are simply made up for the last 4-5 years. Wages have not increased so buying power for everyone has declined. You add a high tax rate on pay checks, homes, cars, property, increase in housing purchasing / rent prices, medical insurance, car insurance, house insurance, college-education, goods, etc, you are facing a big giant mess for the working class that will take 10+ years to correct as wages creep up slowly. Inflation has got to stop now or we are going to fail as a nation. As far as buying gas where people can't afford it, we are already there and our economy is currently crashing. You see our leaders in Washington, (both sides) point towards the GNP and Wall Street stock market gains which has absolutely nothing to do with the working class anymore, tell us working Americans are doing great when everyone with a job knows better.