All posts tagged "sugar policy"

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

(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) – Agri-Pulse.com reported last week… “Rep. Ted Yoho, R-Fla., reintroduced a bill Friday that encourages the administration to target foreign sugar subsidies. Under the ‘Zero-for-Zero’ plan, U.S. sugar policy would also be rolled back in exchange for the elimination of foreign programs, which Yoho says are distorting world prices and...