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<blockquote data-quote="Dave70968" data-source="post: 1805529" data-attributes="member: 13624"><p>Not so much. Sugar is cheap...just not American sugar. The continental US doesn't have the climate to grow anywhere near enough sugarcane to satisfy demand, so foreign sugar is about a fourth the cost of domestic sugar. Domestic sugar producers lobbied for--and got--punitive tariffs applied to imported sugar to make up for the fact that they truly can't compete (again, it's a climate thing, not America-bashing; if you don't like it, figure out a way to tow the continent about thirty degrees south). Corn syrup is cheaper than domestic sugar (or foreign + import tariffs), but if the government <em>really</em> got out of the market and let the sugar flow, prices would be quite reasonable.</p><p></p><p>See also <a href="http://cei.org/studies-issue-analysis/us-sugar-problem-solvable" target="_blank">http://cei.org/studies-issue-analysis/us-sugar-problem-solvable</a>.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave70968, post: 1805529, member: 13624"] Not so much. Sugar is cheap...just not American sugar. The continental US doesn't have the climate to grow anywhere near enough sugarcane to satisfy demand, so foreign sugar is about a fourth the cost of domestic sugar. Domestic sugar producers lobbied for--and got--punitive tariffs applied to imported sugar to make up for the fact that they truly can't compete (again, it's a climate thing, not America-bashing; if you don't like it, figure out a way to tow the continent about thirty degrees south). Corn syrup is cheaper than domestic sugar (or foreign + import tariffs), but if the government [I]really[/I] got out of the market and let the sugar flow, prices would be quite reasonable. See also [url]http://cei.org/studies-issue-analysis/us-sugar-problem-solvable[/url]. [/QUOTE]
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