You might want to read a book on economics. Prices went up last year without a wage increase because the money supply increased drastically basically overnight as 2 trillion dollars dumped into the economy. This was the result of a flush of dollars. Unemployment rose during that period due mostly to lockdowns, but also due to increased costs of capital goods thanks to the increased volume of dollars chasing the same number of goods. The wage increase will have a direct effect of more unemployment, just as Obamacare did, because the cost of having employees will rise for certain lower wage sectors. If they use the “stimulus bill” to back door the wage increase, it will appear that the price of goods increases due to the wage increase, but it’s a false indicator, and even a smokescreen/black box. By adding a hundred factors at once, they make it difficult to distinguish what is causing which effect. This is why they love massive spending bills - to spread the blame around evenly and make forensic economics more difficult and take years to unravel what happened. In the end, the wage increases are retarded. The market is bearing the weight as it can, and manipulations have negative effects, key of which will be unemployment which will be followed by more government spending and increasing the money supply, causing more inflation. The answer is to shut down the government entirely, stop all handouts, especially corporate welfare, audit the Federal Reserve, and then shut it down, going back to some sort of hard currency based on weights as worked for millennia rather than arbitrary fiat money.