Only politicians, economists paid by the state (i.e. almost everyone) or journalists writing on behalf of the state and in their ideology believe the inflation data as it is published. Of course, the CPI number understates the true price increase across the board.

As the chart shows, it is primarily the goods and services of daily use, which we cannot escape, especially those in the lower income brackets, that are killing their purchasing power. The state is the big profiteer, as it benefits above all from indirect taxation by making a big grab at VAT through inflated nominal gross domestic product.

It's like Milton Friedman said: if you want to know how high the actual taxation is, you also have to factor in the national debt. Because we pay for this through tax increases or inflation, through the planned debasement of money. This seignorage transfer from the private sector to the state is the real robbery, as it is neither explained nor even unveiled by the media or 'science'. Without knowing what is happening to them, ever larger sections of the middle class are slipping into dependency on the state juggernaut through the theft of purchasing power. https://m.stacker.news/47031