[mdavis6890]

Any way that you give people more money without also increasing the supply of stuff to buy will generate inflation for those things that those people want to buy. If you target the money to certain people, then the things those people buy will inflate. If you target the money to certain stuff (like education), then that is what will inflate. I don't think changing the mechanism to a standard deduction changes this - except maybe to focus the inflation on taxpayers and what they buy.