As usual, TPTB find another way to pit us against each other.
Inflation happens when the money supply is increased without anything to back it up. Everything else is downstream from that.
It's a massive tax hidden in plain sight, and if it goes far enough it wrecks everything in its path. Check out how the German inflation of the 1920s worked out.
The train jumped the rails when we went off the gold standard in 1971. And lest anyone think that I'm getting political, remember that a republican president took us off the gold standard, but it was accepted by both major parties. And that was when the inflation of the ''70s began, resulting in the bloodbath of the '80s.