“People will go out and spend some of that money and that would further put upward pressure on prices and probably magnify inflationary effects,” said Joseph Rosenberg, senior fellow at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center.Others warn such payments could stoke inflation — an issue still lingering after the pandemic-era stimulus measures.“I don’t think [a rebate] would be particularly good policy,” Alex Durante, senior economist at the Tax Foundation, told CNBC. (4) “I would prefer that the revenue was used ...