On Slate’s hub for hot takes: a sweet deal for sugar producers, a sour one for everyone else.
On today’s episode of Hear Me Out… a spoonful of sugar helps the trade protectionism go down.
The Farm Bill is up for renewal this year — and there’s a chorus of voices now, as in years past, saying it’s time we stop favoring domestic sugar. The U.S. has subsidized American sugar producers for almost as long as we’ve been a republic, but the current system is very complicated… and very costly for the average consumer.Colin Grabow, research fellow at the Cato Institute, joins us to argue for the end of the U.S. sugar program.If you have thoughts you want to share, or an idea for a topic we should tackle, you can email the show:
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