In a nutshell without going into too much details, vaccines are not free, the pharmaceutical companies did it for profit. The covid contracts up to today are kept secret, no one knows the details but believe me the pharma companies bribed many government officials to pass mandates. Politicians stuffed money into their pockets. Did you never ask yourself this that the people who benefited the most from this are also the same people pushing the most for the mandates? The governments spent billions of dollars to give out vaccines but money does not grow on trees. There are two ways to generate money, one is via taxes and the other by increasing the money supply hence print more bills. Taxes are not too popular so they decide to increase the money supply. People assume it is free but this could not be further from the truth. I warned people two years ago how prices will jump big time and this is what we see. Printing bills devalued the currency in essence reduced the purchasing power. Someone earning $60,000 now that is worth $30,000. Inflation is the most hideous type of tax because it has no legislation and is hidden.
One way this benefits the government is they almost always maintain the same income tax thresholds so the government collects more tax revenue without increasing tax rates. So if someone making $60,000 a year pays 30% income tax rate and someone earning $90,000 a year pays 45% income tax rate, inflation causes wages to go up thus workers end up paying more taxes even though it appears as if they are paying the same tax rate (remember the value of your wages went down). Other way is inflation causes prices and wages to go up so the government collects more taxes (higher revenue for the government). Higher prices and people buying products and services will automatically pay higher taxes. Another way is that higher inflation reduces the real value of debt, bondholders on fixed interest rates will see a fall in the real value of their bonds and it becomes easier for the government to pay back these bonds.
One way this benefits the government is they almost always maintain the same income tax thresholds so the government collects more tax revenue without increasing tax rates. So if someone making $60,000 a year pays 30% income tax rate and someone earning $90,000 a year pays 45% income tax rate, inflation causes wages to go up thus workers end up paying more taxes even though it appears as if they are paying the same tax rate (remember the value of your wages went down). Other way is inflation causes prices and wages to go up so the government collects more taxes (higher revenue for the government). Higher prices and people buying products and services will automatically pay higher taxes. Another way is that higher inflation reduces the real value of debt, bondholders on fixed interest rates will see a fall in the real value of their bonds and it becomes easier for the government to pay back these bonds.