From Toras Avigdor on this last week’s Parsha:
So let’s say your wife comes back from shopping and she spent let’s say – on an ordinary shopping trip today you can spend let’s say 100 dollars. That’s not much today. Today the prices are going up because the government is wasting billions of dollars. Don’t deceive yourself. Our politicians are to blame. And even though they’ll come to us and say, “Look, we are getting certain grants from the government and the yeshivos can use the grants,” don’t be fooled. Don’t think the grants are going to give you something for nothing. You are getting something right now, but you are paying out much more in other ways. Eventually it comes out of the yeshiva man’s pocket. When he goes to the store he pays much more. He has to spend much more for the produce that he could have gotten for much less had the government not wasted billions. You’re going to pay through the nose for everything! Gasoline and cars cost more when taxes are raised and therefore transportation costs more. So there’s no such thing as saving money by getting handouts from the governments. You’re going to pay more for a pound of potatoes.