Are you an American citizen? If so, did you know that we pay about 50% more for our sugar than the rest of the world does? The reason we do this is so that the federal government can deliver $1.4B in annual subsidies to less than 5,000 sugar cane and sugar beet growers. That's an average of $280K annually to each and every one of those growers (though the actual distribution is far less even than that – some growers get tens of millions a year).
For the first time in decades, there's a realistic chance that this piece of obvious corruption will be voted down. Write your congresscritters...
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