"sf" > wrote in message
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>
> Want to know why we pay so much for sugar? Farm subsidies, that's
> why.
>
> The One Percent (documentary)
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmlX3fLQrEc


I thought we all knew that.

There was a time that some company was importing sweetened ice tea, which
was not price controlled, extracting the sugar and throwing away the tea.

I think one reason we continue with our farm subsidies is to not
unilaterally disarm - we have tried to trade eliminating/reducing our farm
subsidies in exchange for other protective countries doing the same or
offering some loosening of their other protections, but the deals always
fell through. Seems the US is not the only protectionist country - probably
far less so than most.