Our economic crisis isn’t inflation, it’s corporate greed and the GOP will only make that worse

Our economic crisis isn’t inflation, it’s corporate greed which is at a 70-year high and oil companies are buying back their stock, not lowering prices.

‘I apologize to no one that we expanded the Child Tax Credit that provided $300 a month per child to working families so that parents could raise their kids with a modicum of security. ’ ‘Let’s be clear. Inflation is not unique to America. It is an international crisis. In the European Union, inflation is nearly 11%. In Germany, it is 11.6%. In the United Kingdom it is 10.1%. In Ireland, it’s 9.6%. In America, it’s 8.2%, much too high, but lower than it is throughout much of Europe.’ Bernie Sanders is an independent who represents Vermont in the U.S. Senate. 

During this campaign, my Republican colleagues talk a lot about inflation, and they are right to do so. Over the last year, Americans have become sick and tired of paying outrageously high prices for food, gas, health care, prescription drugs, housing and other necessities.