Quote from Emini Maestro:
Inflation is not the cause, it is the symptom. Anything of value becomes less valuable when more of it is produced, and the paper fiat dollar is no exception. Helicopter Bernanke told us years ago he would run the printing presses 24/7, so the money supply is out of control. The component known as M1 is now secret in the Fed, keeping real information from the public about how much money has been produced, but sending the government to audit the Fed is like sending the pimp to check the girls. The bottom line is that our dollar buys less. Prices are 50% higher than 7 years ago. Check it out. Your money buys half of what it did in 2002.
Call it inflation, a falling dollar, or whatever; the result is the same. You cannot buy what you could buy before. It takes twice as many reserve notes (which is neither money nor is it Constitutional, per the founders) to buy what you bought before. That is the symptom of the Greenspan/Bernanke money printing machine called the Fed, and of the removal of US currency from the gold standard, some 40 years ago.
California schools aren't cheap anymore partially because the illegals have used up the state's money, and unfortunately for them, California doesn't have printing presses with which to make more money.