Why Does This Cost So Much?

If you are wondering about why the merchant has raised their prices, then you are thinking like your government wants you to think. You are not asking why is the value of the money I'm using decreasing?
The answer is quite simple and you should already know it. Your government is provably stealing from you. Since your government educated you with mandatory public schooling, do you think it would educate you about how it steals from you?
This stealing has been going on since 1913. If the value of your money was 100% in 1913, it dropped to 5% in 2013. 95% of its value was stolen from those holding this "money" since 1913.

A counterfeit is an imitation designed to deceive and defraud. It is a simulation and a fake. It is a fraudulent copy. It is not genuine. It does not have the value of the original item.
If someone offers to sell you a gold chain necklace that is actually made of pyrite, the pyrite fake does not have the value of a gold original. The seller intends to defraud you.
Counterfeiting Federal Reserve Notes is how government and its partner in crime the Federal Reserve central bank have been stealing from you.
At one time in my youth I was able to purchase 100 individually wrapped bubble gum pieces for one "dollar". So for illustration I'll set the value of a one unit Federal Reserve Note as equal to the value of 100 individually wrapped bubble gum pieces. A one unit Federal Reserve Note is now equal to the value of 5 individually wrapped bubble gum pieces.
Where did the value of 95 individually wrapped bubble gum pieces go?
If 19 Federal Reserve Notes are counterfeited, then 20 Federal Reserve Notes will have the value of 100 individually wrapped bubble gum pieces, or 5 individually wrapped bubble gum pieces each.
Keep in mind, whatever the number of 100% Federal Reserve Notes, that number will need 19 counterfeit notes for every 100% Federal Reserve Note in existence when the counterfeiting fraud and theft started in 1913. Take another look at the chart image above.
Now that you know the truth of this logic, what are you going to do? Keep this information to yourself like a good brainwashed Submitizen? Or share it far and wide? The QR Code above is intended to make sharing this easy for you.