USA Today has an interesting column:
“But the villains
who have destroyed the jobs of American workers are Congress and the Department
of Agriculture, not Nabisco and free trade. It is the very protectionist
policies The Donald advocates to help American industry "win" again
that caused the Oreo job losses he decries. Federal policy has long kept the
U.S. price of sugar at double or triple that found in the world market. Food
manufacturers such as Nabisco are hostage to a Byzantine combination of price
supports and arbitrary import restrictions that make producing candy and other
sweets far more expensive here than in Canada or Mexico.
Federal sugar policy costs consumers $3 billion a year in a failed effort to save the jobs of sugar growers even as the number of such farmers has declined by almost 50% in recent decades.”
Federal sugar policy costs consumers $3 billion a year in a failed effort to save the jobs of sugar growers even as the number of such farmers has declined by almost 50% in recent decades.”