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The Importance of Inflation in the CPI
The CPI is rigged in such a way as to have a number. The methodology that is used has been engineered to mask the real degree to which prices arise. And again, if you think about inflation as a tax, when the government taxes you legitimately, let's say through a sales tax or an income tax, whatever, they don't take any of your money. They took your purchasing power. So it's the same thing.