Posted on 06/29/2017 10:47:44 AM PDT by GIdget2004
Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) on Thursday voiced his opposition to the Trump administration’s agreement with Mexico on the sugar trade, saying the deal increases the costs for consumers.
“I disagree—the new sugar deal hikes prices for consumers even more. Here’s why," Toomey wrote on Twitter, quoting a tweet from President Trump and linking to his own remarks on the agreement.
Trump early Thursday touted the deal on Twitter, saying it is “a very good one” for both countries.
“New Sugar deal negotiated with Mexico is a very good one for both Mexico and the U.S. Had no deal for many years which hurt U.S. badly,” Trump said.
But Toomey, who hails from the state that is home to The Hershey Company, a chocolate manufacturer, argued the “deal actually makes the problem worse,” referring to current sugar prices.
In a speech earlier this month on the Senate floor, Toomey slammed the agreement, saying it is bad for American consumers and workers.
“The fact is this is a bad deal for the United States. I am completely mystified as to why our Commerce Department would agree to it,” Toomey said at the time.
“It’s a bad deal for U.S. consumers, and we’re all consumers. It’s a bad deal for American workers. It completely fails to address the high price of sugar that we have in America today.”
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Not exactly.
Subsidy is a transfer of money from the government to an entity. It leads to a fall in the price of the subsidised product.
Helps the corn growers more than anything.
Toomey nearly ended his career in PA by joining Joe Manchin in an attempted gun grab. Only the fact that the Democrats ran a shrill Feminist Hillary clone saved him this time.
“I detest HFCS”
My doc is convinced that it caused my Type ll. I used to drink a lot of Dole type juices. They;re loaded with it. I figured juice was mostly water, so I drank a lot of it!
Well they feed corn to livestock to fatten them up so it all makes sense.
sugar and similar sweeteners are a large part of the problem in so many diseases and health issues.
It would help me stay off sugar if the price went up more for things containing it.
I avoid HFCorn syrup and Agave syrup and the like already since they are addictive and sickening to the body worse than even regular sugar is.
Why are people wanting better health care, yet wanting sugar and such health harming things to be cheap?
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