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03/12/2017 / By Daniel Barker

America’s sugar industry has been on “welfare” for far too long

The effects of sugar subsidies on the American economy are anything but sweet – sugar tariffs and quotas cost the United States more than 100,000 manufacturing jobs while consumers pay higher prices at the supermarket checkout counter. In fact, sugar subsidy programs force American consumers to pay an extra $2.4 billion per year to finance […]

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