By Eric Sammons, Crisis Magazine - There’s no such thing as a free lunch, and when Church leaders push for yet another “free” program for the poor, they are in reality putting a greater long-term burden on those poor. For it won’t be the rich who pay for it, but the poor themselves in the form of higher prices. To understand their error, we need to understand why prices rise... Price increases are commonly known as inflation. And for Americans, inflation has been a way of life for the past century.