[iowamark]

[sparklite2]

FR is surprisingly tariff friendly.

[hosepipe]

Sugar subsidies are obscene.. so is Marco Rineo..

[GeronL]

End all corporate subsidies and favoritism (looking at trump there) and funding of non-government organisations

[Will88]

For FY 2013, U.S. sugar beet and sugarcane producers supplied 21.8 billion pounds of refined sugar to the U.S. market at an average wholesale price of 28.84 cents per pound, or $1.3 billion more than if U.S. sugar buyers had been allowed to pay the average global price of 22.84 cents per pound.[8]

28.84 cents for US sugar as opposed to 22.84 for imported sugar in 2013. That difference is not causing the price of any product to be significantly higher.

There's a lot to be said for being self-sufficient in food, particularly in basics that are used in many products.

For all the complaining some do concerning the sugar tariff, I was expecting the difference to show that US sugar was several times the import price.

[null and void]

Not to worry, the instant obama normalizes relations with Cuba, the sugar tariffs will be eliminated.

[webheart]

If the sugar lobby didn’t spend so much protecting its market, sugar prices wouldn’t have to be so high. It isn’t just the donations, but the staffing and administration of the Big Sugar organization. Also, the protection of sugar markets has given us high fructose corn syrup as an alternative sweetener. It could be argued that high fructose corn syrup causes more obesity than sugar does.

[conservative98]

[Iron Munro]

Like other government meddling in agricultural, sugar subsidies keep wealthy fat cats wealthy and kicking back psrt of their wealth as political contributions to the politicians who keep them wealthy.

[cyberstoic]

High Fructose Crap Syrup exists because of this perversion of the market. Without the sugar subsidy High Fructose Crap Syrup would not be nearly so profitable and manufacturers would use real sugar like they do everywhere else in the world.

[masadaman]

A quick history of the U. S. Sugar Act, which was first passed during Washington's presidency to protect the rum trade in New England. Fast forward to the Cuban Revolution in 1956 when one family controlled most of Cuba's sugar production. That family, the Fanjuls, fled to Spain and to the U.S., specifically Palm Beach FL. Today the Fanjul dynasty controls virtually all cane sugar grown, refined and marketed in the United states and a good portion of sugar beet refining and marketing. Think Domino and C&H among others.

If one were to Google Fanjul and could Google them post 1956, they would find that virtually every American president from JFK to W has socialized with and been the beneficiary of financial help from the Fanjul family.

The subject sugar subsidy is a gift that keeps on giving of perhaps $1.5 billion American tax dollars to maintain this monopoly owned and operated by again, one family. It is 100% unnecessary to protect any of our food supply. HOW SWEET IT IS!

[catnipman]

Check out this clip about sugar subsidies from “The Distinguished Gentleman” starting at 1:44:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7fBwc803CI