I would bet money that when they hear that annual inflation was 7.5% in Jan 2022 and 6.4% in Jan 2023, a large percentage of the U.S. population thinks that costs have decreased from 2022 to 2023. They don't understand math or economics, but their flaming liberal teachers have indoctrinated them into believing that socialism is good.5% over norms. Now don't discount that extra amount being placed on a credit card and add the interest on that since wages aren't increasing with inflation. BB doesn't care about that part of the population (a significant part because orange man bad)