The level of indoctrination to believe that “price controls are totalitarian communism” while simultaneously placing the price of labor in a distinct, non-price, category that must be constrained.

Inflation is nothing but a tax on wealth, so long as wages rise accordingly. And they say that somehow taxes on wealth are unconstitutional. Wealth is protected and sacrosanct, but income is not.

What you’ve already “earned” (almost always by virtue of being born rich) is untouchable and sacred but constraining earnings is a matter of public policy.

The degree of indoctrination is just incredible. And this is Politico. Mediafactcheckbias^TM^ ranks them as “center left”.

Labor must lose earning power so that billionaires and bankers are protected. That’s the center left.