Inflation does not come by itself. This new money comes exclusively from the government. The government creates inflation if it spends more than it collects through taxation.

Price increases are just a consequence. Once they start, they can no longer be avoided. The money that the government has overspent has to be collected somehow. Inflation is like a tax on the government's irresponsible fiscal policy, except that everyone pays it, and the poor and middle class are the most affected, since they spend most of their income on food and other daily necessities.

Treating inflation is very painful. The government can drastically reduce its spending, but that means someone will be hit hard. If a significant part of the economy depends on government aid or spending, then a recession will occur. If the government cuts social programs, the unemployed, retirees, and other welfare recipients will be affected. If the government cuts bureaucracy and the public sector, people who have been laid off from the public sector will be affected. Whichever way you look at it, treating inflation properly and effectively is painful and can easily send the country into recession.

Few governments will resort to such methods at all, even though they alone could reduce or suppress inflation. Most will resort to populist tricks such as price freezes. This may only affect the official inflation rate in the short term, but it can also lead to even bigger problems such as shortages and store closures. At best, if the list of products with frozen prices is not too long, it will only prolong the process.

It is much more painless to prevent inflation before it occurs. So there is prevention, and it should be a law, perhaps even a constitutional institution to protect citizens from irresponsible government fiscal policy. Germany has something like that, although it is now going to spoil it. But it is essentially a great thing - to constitutionally limit public spending by the state and local governments, i.e. at all levels, and thus prevent greedy politicians, when they come to power, from harming their citizens.

The first step in prevention should certainly be civic awareness. Citizens should first understand how inflation occurs and where it comes from. Then they should ask every politician in power to act responsibly with the public money at their disposal. And so that it does not remain in words, enter it into the Constitution, pass a law that expressly limits the spending of public money within realistic frameworks and punishes those responsible in power if they violate it.

Because otherwise we will have inflation every now and then, since no one thinks about inflation while everything is functioning normally and prices are not rising. Only when prices start to rise seriously, so much so that the average consumer can notice it, do people start to worry about it, but by then it is already too late.

Just as we need to exercise enough and eat properly while we are healthy precisely to prevent the onset of disease, so we should also ask politicians in power to behave responsibly with public money when there are no visible problems in the economy.

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