How much are the sugar subsudides now?
And how much will we, the taxpayers, save if the subsudies go away?
Millions of us peasants used to make a living chopping and picking cotton, damn how I miss those good old days. SARCASM OFF\
America has the chance to cut the amount of money we spend on sugar to less than one quarter of the current amount of money currently spent? We can have a price reduction of 76%?
The sugar tariff is nuts. We pay a big price for it hidden in all of our groceries. How much better would all of our packaged foods taste if they were made with a little sugar rather than 'fructose' (corn syrup). Meanwhile these sugar growers are WAY inefficient.
Those sugar barons get no sympathy from me. We pay over three times the world price for sugar. Ever wonder why Coke and other soft drink makers switched over to corn syrup? Because it was cheaper! I like the old sugar drinks better and miss them.
It's all about giving away the wealth and industry of America to raise the economies of third world nations in the Western Hemisphere. We are being strip mined, but my easy chair is just to comfy to really raise a fuss about it.