So that the masses can't have it, but anybody making over say $100K year (or $1M year) it's a non issue ("yeah, burger went from $5 to $20, still hardly a dent to my finances").
We can either make things more expensive now with a tax that we can structure so that poor people are hit less hard, or we can wait until catastrophic climate change makes everything expensive and there is nothing we can do to help the poor because even the rich are struggling.