I thought of that. Taylor thinks wages and prices are frozen, so he thinks 8% is a lot. In reality, prices are out of control, and I bet regulators are earning most of their money through graft.
Regular government employees wouldn’t think that. They actually do their own shopping and they are very fixated about prices of stuff they normally buy in relation to what they perceive as inadequate salaries and benefits. If they saw their regular stuff jumping 100% a year because of inflation - and that’s how you know there is inflation, real prices on real everyday stuff goes up - an 8% salary bump ain’t gonna do it for ANY of them.