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To: hedgetrimmer
Smart "free trader" that you are you would know the price of sugar is going up because the MARKET is dictating it.

Excellent news!! We can eliminate all restrictions on sugar imports because prices are now high enough for our sugar farmers to make a profit without government protection.

World Sugar

U.S. Sugar

Of course if you looked at the above links, you'd see that US sugar averaged 29.54 cents a pound for the calendar year 2005 versus World sugar at 13.19 cents a pound. Imagine the multiplier if your buddies can get Congress to raise the US price to $1 a pound. Or maybe $2. Anything for our sugar farmers. Sounds like loyalty to Americans all right.

119 posted on 01/21/2006 10:32:22 AM PST by Toddsterpatriot (Why are protectionists so bad at math?)
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To: Toddsterpatriot

There is NO world sugar price that is free market. In your globalist rhetoric, you ignore this point.

Governments of all sugar-producing countries intervene in their production, consumption and/or trade of sugar, which makes sugar one of the most heavily subsidized and distorted markets in the world.
--U.S. Department of Agriculture


121 posted on 01/21/2006 11:10:30 AM PST by hedgetrimmer ("I'm millions richer, thanks to the revolutionary "free trade" system--Jaing Zemin)
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