Over the last year, we've been dealing with avian flu - it's highly infectious and chickens drop from it within 24 hours so it's hard to catch before it's spread through the flock. With bird migration happening again, it's spreading badly in some areas, like it did in coastal MA during the spring

Its led to an egg shortage, as well as chicken and turkey so they've all gone up

The idea is that the people who earn more are able to lose more money. Through this cap you've pointed out, it allows poorer people to be given a tax break which the rich have the ability to shoulder

5% is a lot more to someone earning 50K than someone earning a million. 9% is even more while people earning a million can live comfortably with that just fine