Many do not realize the US has a rather large sugar price support program, as do a number of other countries. Worldwide glut of sugar means low market prices and high subsidies. More insanity.
At the same time the left is ranting about so-called “oil subsidies”. A year or two a buddy of mine complained about it and what it turned out to be is that somebody found some form of oil industry profit that hadn’t been taxed yet —that they were calling that a “subsidy”!