Thank a Democrat for that. Increasing the minimum wage drives up prices. More and more regulations, which Democrats favor, drives up prices. Increasing corporate and individual tax rates, drives up prices. When the government bypasses budgetary constraints and prints more money to fund bloated government salaries and social programs and wars around the world, the end result is the value of money itself decreasing, resulting in even more inflated prices. In places like California, New York, Illinois, Oregon, Massachusetts, Minnesota, and Hawaii the impact is felt even more because state governments exacerbate the situation worse through even more liberal regulations and laws and higher income taxes.