[1010RD]

Explain how the sugar tariff benefits me.

[Georgia Girl 2]

You assume I care if you get benefitted. :-)

[central_va]

I don’t favor tariffs on minerals and agricultural products. Where God put minerals and the climate for the different crops was up to him. Factories are man made constructs and that is what I think tariffs work best for manufactured products.

[DannyTN]

The sugar tariff benefits you by...

1. Keeping funds out of the hands of Cuban communists.
2. Keeping you from having to fight wars funded by those Cuban communists.
3. Keeping you from having to support even more people in Louisiana, Texas, Florida and Hawaii than you already do.
4. Keeping Agriculture, once designated as a militarily sensitive industry, in the U.S. and us from being dependent on foreign countries for food.
5. Keeping you from being fatter than you already are.
6. Keeping you from developing diabetes even faster than you already are/have.

The sugar tariff is an imperfect tariff, because the products that use sugar are not tariffed as well. Consequently it's put our candy manufacturers at a disadvantage to foreign producers.

Isolated examples like the sugar tariff is not good examples for general import tariffs which benefited our country greatly for 180 years.

NAFTA is undermining the sugar tariff because Mexico can ship sugar in tariff free.