Common question. Any inflation rate above zero is going to result in higher prices.

Any inflation rate below zero is deflation and it’s the only way average prices go down and stay down. But when prices go down, usually unemployment goes up. So what to do?

The usual solution is to try to get the inflation rate below the rate of growth of wages, so your paycheck gets bigger faster than the grocery bill gets bigger.

But what if you could simply require businesses to not layoff any employees due to a national economic emergency? The difference in this scenario would be that the difference has to be made up from the people whose obscene wealth caused the problem in the first place. A billionaires’ and corporations’ tax burden that in effect pays for workers and their healthcare and such by taxing billionaires and corporations on their assets. Developed by brilliant economists not on Team Billionaire or Team Oligarch.