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Re:UK: Food inflation rises to 18.2% as it hits highest rate... by somenameforme on Friday March 24, 2023 @03:09PM (#35294013)
The main driver in inflation is monetary velocity - the rate at which money is exchanging hands in the market. Increases in monetary supply tends almost invariably lead to increases in monetary velocity, so the two are generally equated - but this is not strictly necessary. If I gave you a quadrillion dollars tomorrow, and you chose to simply keep it under your [rather large] bed, but otherwise continued living as you do - then obviously no inflation is going to happen, even though you just increased the monetary supply quite substantially.

So while one could nitpick some points about the specifics of government actions as relation to monetary supply, even if we take all of your points for granted - there would almost certainly be inflation proportional to the amount given. The only way there would be no inflation is if this action didn't increase monetary velocity.

Re:UK: Food inflation rises to 18.2% as it hits highest rate... by cheriot on Friday March 24, 2023 @03:35PM (#35294343)
So tax $1.10 for every $1 redistributed. It's a choice to frame inflation as coming from redistribution vs the wealthy avoiding taxes.
Re:UK: Food inflation rises to 18.2% as it hits highest rate... by somenameforme on Saturday March 25, 2023 @10:45AM (#35303129)
Again this is not really a solution to the problem. Because the issue is not one of monetary supply, but of velocity. Giving money to people who will spend that money increases monetary velocity. The only way to prevent this is to reduce the amount of money people are spending.

That's why, for instance, the Fed is currently raising interest rates. They want to 'gently' brake the economy (while trying to avoid breaking it) such that people stop spending so much money, and inflation cools down. By contrast countless countries have tried to solve inflation by simply naively tackling the problem.

People don't have enough money to buy chicken? Well obviously we just need to give them more money! And that's how you get Zimbabwe. [1] Alternatively, another direct approach is to say "Okay - companies may no longer charge more than $0.50 for a chicken." That's how you get Venezuela. [2]

[1] - https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/may/14/zimbabwe-trill...

[2] - https://www.reuters.com/news/picture/venezuelas-empty-shelve...

Re:UK: Food inflation rises to 18.2% as it hits highest rate... by cheriot on Friday March 31, 2023 @05:53PM (#35394162)
That's why I reference a net removal of spending

> So tax $1.10 for every $1 redistributed

Re:UK: Food inflation rises to 18.2% as it hits highest rate... by RhodesianHunter on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @05:06PM (#35363658)
>The main driver in inflation is monetary velocity

I would say this is also mostly innacurate. Velocity is one factor, but may or may not be the driving factor depending on circumstances.

If a global pandemic shuts down most of the manufacturing cities in China, and a war in Ukraine takes Russian energy and Ukrainian grain out of the supply equation, then the velocity of money is irrelevant compared to supply constraints.