StevePerkins parent
The point is not to balance a budget. The point is to rein in persistently triple-digit inflation. Everyone wants to have their cake and eat it too, but the reality is that you fight inflation by cooling economic activity for a period.
A 30-40% real drop in economic activity and a reduction by half in purchases of medical consumer items isn't "cooling"; it is an active destruction of the real economy that has absolutely no rationale.
You literally just made that up. You probably think that everyone's salary got cut in half when the government stopped lying about the value of their currency.