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Crystal Sugar CEO blasts anti-GMO movement, Texas Sen. Cruz
SunHerald ^
| 12/3/15
| D. Kolpack
Posted on 12/03/2015 3:28:02 PM PST by VinL
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"Sen. Cruz says he doesn't like crony capitalism, but how does he feel about subsidized socialism?" Berg asked.
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Distinction without a difference, sugar-butt.
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posted on
12/03/2015 3:28:02 PM PST
by
VinL
To: VinL
Cruz has also opposed sugar subsidies.
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posted on
12/03/2015 3:29:44 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
To: VinL
These Big Ag trough-sloppers are 100 times worse than every welfare baby-mamma combined.
NO FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES. None. Period. Not for oil, not for solar, not for Big Ag. Shut off the teat. Let the market work.
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posted on
12/03/2015 3:33:32 PM PST
by
Nervous Tick
(There is no "allah" but satan, and mohammed was his demon-possessed tool.)
To: Nervous Tick
At least the welfare baby mamma combo doesn’t actively compete for market share.
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posted on
12/03/2015 3:39:06 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
To: VinL
"Berg said at a news conference afterward that if Cruz and other politicians against the sugar program get their way, it will put American sugar companies out of business in favor of exports from Brazil, where he said growers receive $2 billion from their government to grow sugar cane." The right way to look at this is that the Brazillian government is choosing to spend $2 billion of their taxpayers money in order to make sugar cheaper for Americans. As long as they are stupid enough to do it we ought to take advantage.
People don't realize that the economic effect on that totality of sugar buyers is going to be larger than the effect on a few local sugar producers.
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posted on
12/03/2015 3:39:07 PM PST
by
mlo
To: VinL
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posted on
12/03/2015 3:39:12 PM PST
by
2ndDivisionVet
(TED CRUZ. You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
To: Nervous Tick
This Berg clown needs to go after ADM and High Fructose Corn Syrup if he wants to compete.
Subsidies benefit everyone BUT the consumer and taxpayer who it just so happens, are one in the same.
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posted on
12/03/2015 3:41:47 PM PST
by
Ouderkirk
(To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
You’re going to make me look un-cool but what the heck is that, Vet?
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posted on
12/03/2015 3:43:47 PM PST
by
VinL
(It is better to suffer every wrong, then to consent to wrong.)
To: VinL
Cruz blowing up the crony money wagon of agri-business.
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posted on
12/03/2015 3:46:58 PM PST
by
2ndDivisionVet
(TED CRUZ. You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
To: cripplecreek
"Cruz has also opposed sugar subsidies."I think that was sorta the point here...
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posted on
12/03/2015 3:47:06 PM PST
by
Redbob
(#BlackCoffeeMatters)
To: Ouderkirk
A quick google search:
"As President and Chief Executive Officer at AMERICAN CRYSTAL SUGAR CO /MN/, David A. Berg made $1,015,086 in total compensation. Of this total $653,775 was received as a salary, $307,236 was received as a bonus, $0 was received in stock options, $0 was awarded as stock and $54,075 came from other types of compensation."
Wow. A lot of money to run a sugar company subsidized by We the People.
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posted on
12/03/2015 3:47:55 PM PST
by
tenger
(Friends don't let friends eat lutefisk.)
To: Ouderkirk
A quick google search:
"As President and Chief Executive Officer at AMERICAN CRYSTAL SUGAR CO /MN/, David A. Berg made $1,015,086 in total compensation. Of this total $653,775 was received as a salary, $307,236 was received as a bonus, $0 was received in stock options, $0 was awarded as stock and $54,075 came from other types of compensation."
Wow. A lot of money to run a sugar company subsidized by We the People.
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posted on
12/03/2015 3:47:56 PM PST
by
tenger
(Friends don't let friends eat lutefisk.)
To: mlo
wouldn’t eliminating cost ineffective sugar beets be a boon for texas cane sugar?
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posted on
12/03/2015 3:48:23 PM PST
by
Thibodeaux
(this time really is different)
To: mlo
I’m with you: if sugar can’t be grown economically in this country, where damn near everything ELSE can be produced at a profit, they ought not to grow it.
And we dang sure ought not to be making something more expensive for millions of consumers while lining the pockets of a few fat cats in South Florida and south Louisiana.
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posted on
12/03/2015 3:49:43 PM PST
by
Redbob
(#BlackCoffeeMatters)
To: mlo
I’m with you: if sugar can’t be grown economically in this country, where damn near everything ELSE can be produced at a profit, they ought not to grow it.
And we dang sure ought not to be making something more expensive for millions of consumers while lining the pockets of a few fat cats in South Florida and south Louisiana.
The WSJ has reported that the retail price of sugar in the U.S. is $.56, while in Brasil it is $.35 and in India, $.28.
RETAIL price, mind you.
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posted on
12/03/2015 3:52:10 PM PST
by
Redbob
(#BlackCoffeeMatters)
To: VinL
How about give them a “subsidy” in the way of tax cuts? Tax business at 10 to 15% and no extensive write-offs. Keep ALL sorts of business in the U.S. and probably attract a bunch back in.
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posted on
12/03/2015 3:53:23 PM PST
by
21twelve
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
To: VinL
Beet Sugar tends to taste like beets. Pure Cane Sugar is the way to go, Castros be darned.
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posted on
12/03/2015 3:54:39 PM PST
by
Paladin2
(my non-desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, nor my gran-mah.)
To: VinL
“We will defend the sugar program for a long, long time,”
Of course you will. No one likes to lose their sugar tit.
But the rest of us are tired of paying for your happiness.
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posted on
12/03/2015 3:54:59 PM PST
by
sparklite2
(Islam = all bathwater, no baby.)
To: Thibodeaux
Are sugar beets any less cost-effective than cane?
If so, why is beet sugar so much less than cane sugar in the grocery store - surely not because of a subsidy that on a per-pound basis is the same for both?
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posted on
12/03/2015 3:55:26 PM PST
by
Redbob
(#BlackCoffeeMatters)
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