system
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human
Could tax hikes be used to combat inflation?

A friend commented that interest rate increases are the only tool to combat inflation. I know that is true for the Federal Reserve, but couldn't Congress raise taxes, temporarily, to so?

If printing money, putting more into circulation, is guaranteed to begin inflation, wouldn't higher taxes remove it, slowing inflation?

None of the policy people on the podcasts I listen to have mentioned this, so it must be a bad idea with terrible consequences. I just can't name them so I'm here to pose the question.
gpt
Raising interest rates are not literally the only tool to combat inflation. Of course taxing, spending, trade, regulatory, immigration policies, etc. can also lower inflation.

We just view the central as the actor primarily responsible for ensuring price stability, and the tools they use are interest rates and quantitative easing.