All posts tagged "Sugar Market"

(Chuck Muth, Citizen Outreach) – If you think the U.S. sugar program is bad, you should take...

(Chuck Muth, Citizen Outreach) – The House Committee on Agriculture conducted a hearing on October 21 exploring how foreign government meddling in various agricultural markets was hurting U.S. farmers while making a mockery of the notion of “free trade.” In opening remarks, Committee Chairman K. Michael Conaway noted that when it comes to...

(Chuck Muth, Citizen Outreach) – Critics of Rep. Ted Yoho’s “Zero for Zero” resolution who say it can’t...

(Matthew Kandrach, 60 Plus Association) – Next to healthcare and medicine, no budget item hits seniors in the...

(Chuck Muth, Citizen Outreach) – Well, here we go again… Those in Congress who believe in unicorns and...

(Chuck Muth, Citizen Outreach) –  India is the world’s second largest producer of sugar, behind only Brazil. ...

(Chuck Muth, Citizen Outreach) – A serious drought in India could result in the nation’s sugar farmers getting...

(Chuck Muth, Citizen Outreach) – When most Americans hear “Nigeria,” what usually comes first to mind is “email...

(Chuck Muth, Citizen Outreach) – I understand why free market advocates are opposed to the U.S. sugar program...

(Chuck Muth, Citizen Outreach) – James Bovard’s recent USA Today column attacking Sen. Marco Rubio’s (R-Fla.) support of U.S. sugar policy is built on the false assumptions that a global free market in sugar exists and that supporting U.S. farmers is at odds with being conservative. Every sugar-producing country in the world subsidizes...

(Chuck Muth, Citizen Outreach) – India’s government heavily subsidizes its sugar industry, which is in crisis. With such sweet incentives from India’s government, Indian farmers continue to grow the crop far in excess of what can be consumed at home. And with an equally huge glut of sugar in the global marketplace,...

(Chuck Muth) – The opinion column below, published last week in the Honolulu Star Advertiser, provides a quick primer on the danger of trade deals that open a global “free market” in which our “partners” undercut us through government subsidies that our own people do not receive. As you’ll read below, thanks...

(Chuck Muth, Citizen Outreach) – How in the world does a country “hampered by inadequate moisture and poor (sugar) cane quality, small farm size, lack of mechanization, and underutilization of cane mills” nevertheless find itself the world’s second largest sugar exporter? Through the world of government intervention, that’s how. In a recent...