[StevePerkins]

The point is not to balance a budget. The point is to rein in persistently triple-digit inflation. Everyone wants to have their cake and eat it too, but the reality is that you fight inflation by cooling economic activity for a period.

[Daishiman]

A 30-40% real drop in economic activity and a reduction by half in purchases of medical consumer items isn't "cooling"; it is an active destruction of the real economy that has absolutely no rationale.

[iraqmtpizza]

You literally just made that up. You probably think that everyone's salary got cut in half when the government stopped lying about the value of their currency.