Posted on 08/16/2012 1:18:49 PM PDT by 92nina
Keep the tariffs, we've got enough unemployed. And do not want to support Castro's communism.
Take a look at he loan guarantees. I support agriculture subsidies because feeding an army is a militarily sensitive industry.
I’m wondering if the loan guarantees can be replaced with crop insurance. Or does that just protect a farmer from the crop not developing, but not a drop in the market price.
How about making it cheaper to use cane sugar over HFCS (High Fructose Corn Syrup). I went to a friend’s cafe in Indy last week and he had Coke from Mexico and it uses real cane sugar. I forgot how good it tasted versus it with HFCS.
Interesting stuff, I did not know they kept the prices of sugar up.. I should have realized that though, I mean they do keep the prices of so many other products in the produce section..
Bump for later
The tariffs are a job-killer. American candymakers are up against foreign competitors who get their sugar at half the US price, which is why Kraft moved most candy production to Canada. As for the Cuba issue, sugar is a fungible commodity just like oil; lots of our imported sugar comes from friendly Caribbean countries.
In Canada we have a similar problem, which is the “Supply Management” of milk & eggs wherein a farmer pays more for the quotas than he does for chickens or cows. This has led to some absurd situations, such as ice cream manufacturers only allowed to use imported milk to produce ice cream for export. Canadians pay roughly double what Americans pay for dairy products.
The solution is not to lower the tariffs on sugar but to raise them on everything else. That’s why we have so much unemployed. We lowered the tarriffs from their historical norms of about 15%, to 5% in 1980 and now down to 1%.
We are leaving all of our jobs wide open to worldwide competition at $1/day wages.
Raise the tariffs and put American’s back to work.
That won’t work for everything. Under the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement, goods cross the border duty-free.
Slap tariffs on sugar to make us uncompetitive in the world candy market, but sign a NAFTA treaty which allows finished products being made with cheaper sugar to be imported duty free from Mexico and Canada.
Are these guys SOOOOOOPER Geniuses or what?
They are fixin’ to close more than one small American business.
Really? We still have clothing manufacturers here?
Well that's where we've screwed up. We've entered unwise trade agreements that have forced all of our protective tariffs down undoing what worked for the founding fathers.
And now we have 25% unemployment.
There’s a reason Marx advocated ‘Free Trade, the free movement of labor and capital across national borders without any consideration of patriotism or ethics - to speed up global communism.
I was paying the premium for pepsi throwbacks. And then Pepsi came out in favor of gay rights. Now I’m drinking HFCS again.
same thing is true for milk and other commodities. just another way the government controls what we have access too.....centraliz3ed planning is always a bad idea
No premium for Pepsi Throwback here- we pay less for sugar :-)
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