[WATCH]: How the Government Makes You Fat - The Great Sugar Shakedown

From Freedomain Radio - Freedomain Radio is the largest and most popular philosophy show on the web - www.freedomainradio.com original article www.fff.org The Great Sugar Shaft by James Bovard, April 1998 The US government has devotedly jacked up American sugar prices far above world market prices since the close of the War of 1812. The sugar industry is one of America's oldest infant industries — yet it dodders with the same uncompetitiveness that it showed during the second term of James Madison. Few cases better illustrate how trade policy can be completely immune to economic sense. The US imposed high tariffs on sugar in 1816 in order to placate the growers in the newly acquired Louisiana territory. In the 1820s, sugar

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