You can lower a single price, absolutely, by providing a subsidy or in a tax. You can change a single price. That's undoubtedly true.
Can you change what's going on overall?
To change what's going on overall, of course, what is important from the government side is the balance—not a single price. To the extent that the government wanted to make a contribution to a more rapid disinflation, then a balance between revenues and expenditures.... We should have had much more revenue relative to expenditures than we have had.
Directionally, that is absolutely correct. For any single price, you're affecting the relative prices of different products. That's quite a different story from trying to deal with the level as a whole.