why is life so expensive ?

Because EVERYBODY is greedy.

Cost of living goes up

Republicans. If you people never voted for them, life would be a lot happier and wealthier for working people, like it once was. But you all let robbers trivck you into parroting horseflop for them, so they could get in and exempt themselves from tax and law, erase all our protections from being preyed on unfairly. and hock all the jobs and replace them with a minimum wage so low you can work 40 hours but not afford to live indoors, not even in the city in a room with no car. Democrats had made rules that prevented this stuff, you put republicons in and they got rid of them. Congrats. We used to be a democracy with a free press & prosperity and rights.

Because Republicans run the country.