Posted on 08/20/2015 7:21:46 PM PDT by markomalley
Tariffs should be consistently applied. To tariff sugar and not all the products that contain sugar creates an incentive to off-shore.
Sugar has dramatically fallen in price in the past year or so.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with sugar -- it's been a way of life in America for centuries -- especially in the South (sweet tea anyone?). Some of the leftists are pushing the lie that sugar is addictive, like a drug. These are same group of Nazis who believe in the heresy of globull warming. I've enjoyed sugar all my life and am healthy and in my mid-70s!
I blame the dirt bags in congress who subsidize corn and the other dirtbags in congress who demonize High Fructose Corn Sugar.
End the damned corn Subsidies dammit already.
Also maybe by not subsidizing the damned corn sugar industry the sugar BEET farmers would be able to raise sugar beets and we could make all the damned DOMESTIC SUGAR we need instead of relying on 3rd world craphole Sugar cane sugar from commie regimes in south and central America.
The U.S. sugar industry has enjoyed trade protection since 1789 when Congress enacted the first tariff against foreign-produced sugar.
People are finally demanding that vile HFCS be taken out of foods. It's bizarre that US tariff policy forces the manufacture of more healthy foods to move out of the US.
Liberals demonize both corn syrup and anything with sugar in it. This is the same evil bunch that wants to limit the size of pop (or soda or coke -- region dependent for what it's called). I've lived well into my 70s with Karo syrup on my hotcakes nearly every morning and Slurpees from 7-11 on hot afternoons which occur 8-10 months every year in Texas. The tofu eating liberals are unhealthy little waifs. They'll not tell me what to consume!
Go sugar! Go corn syrup! Let freedom ring!
The US pays the highest sugar prices in the world thanks to Congress.
[ end the damned corn subsidies...
People are finally demanding that vile HFCS be taken out of foods. It’s bizarre that US tariff policy forces the manufacture of more healthy foods to move out of the US. ]
Yeah and current policy screws over domestic Sugar beet farmers in favor of BIG KORN.
Hawaii was once a major producer of sugar until the unions organized the cane workers and demanded such high wages that the industry went under
Soon enough Oreos will be arriving fresh from Cuba. Thanks markomalley.
I don’t eat pan cakes very often but when I do, I drown them in sorghum molasses. I’m still kicking after 70 years.
I ate it when growing up, my mother introduced me to it, she still eats sorghum molasses and she’s almost 95.
I did not know that. Why?? As far as I can figure out, beet sugar is not a problem. It's the HFCS that's the killer.
I know nothing about farming. What is the logic of favoring corn over over beets?
Or, we could simply stop protecting sugar farmers.
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