Reloading components - why is the price so high?

[The Gamemaster]

Ok, so I went to go buy some primers yesterday.
CCI 200 is what I wanted.
The salesman asked me how many I wanted?
I laughed and said that they were sold by the thousand.
He laughed back and said not anymore!

I came to find out that a brick of 1000 now costs $40.00
I bought one , reluctantly.
Last box I bought, 5 years ago was $25.00 and even that was price gouging.

The ones I bought 16 years ago were only $5.00

Now think about it, Gasoline is $3.50 a gallon, was $.99 cents back then.
Bread was $1.00 / now it is $2.00 for a loave half its size.
Milk was $2.50 / now it is $3.89

So why did primers have to go up 800%

Why does people have to hoard these things?

It makes no sense to me!
You can buy a box of brand new Federal 30 - 06 Springfield 150 ammo for $15.99

With a box of cheap bullets going for $25.00 a hundred - if you can find them, and a box of primers going for $4.00 and powder - $16.00 a one pound can.. You can't reload em as cheap as you can buy em! By the time you buy the press and the scales and the dies and the case trimmers and all the accessories - you have a couple of hundred dollars tied up into reloading.
Not to mention the cost of building a bench today...

It just doesn't seem worth it!

Now Colorado is talking about limiting the amount of ammo you are allowed to own> ? that is just messed up!