You can't help soften the blow of inflation by giving people more money! That will just cause more inflation and make everything worse!
We've all heard it a thousand times, giving normal working class people, especially poor people, more money will only make everything worse by causing more inflation. Somehow this will leave the majority worse off than if nothing had been done.
This is considered common sense among liberal-conservatives but as leftists we instinctively know that it is bullshit. Maybe higher wages and benefits would increase inflation but the net total is that the working class would be better off than before.
Instinct is not a very convincing argument though so how do you argue the case against the wage inflation spiral to liberal-conservatives?
I'd like to point out that the result of this command economy was that in 1945 they had more productive capacity, not less. And a bunch of war surplus stuff too. So many goods deflated in price.
So cheap in fact that the US had to make the core of what would become the Military industrial complex from the surplus production capacity.