> The US sugar policy is borderline criminal.
The one amendment that gets passed with every piece of legislation is the law of unintended consequences.
Yea, the unintended consequence is that all of our candy manufactueres are forced to go off shore.
The intended consequence was that a handful of well-connected sugar farmers make out like bandits, while every consumer in US pays overpays for sugar (billions in the aggregate).
They both stink.