Beware the Big Candy Bailout
Even though U.S. Census data say otherwise, U.S. candy manufacturers claim they have been shipping jobs overseas for years. And according to their extremely well-compensated lobbyists, the fault is the high price of domestic sugar. As such, Big Candy is once again seeking a congressional bailout of sorts this week in the Senate Agriculture Appropriations […]
Will nine times be the charm for Big Candy?
Big Candy didn’t get to be Big Candy by taking no for an answer. Since 2012, lobbyists for candy-makers and cookie bakers have used their considerable political clout and a small fortune from chocolate bar sales to pressure Congress to gut the U.S. sugar program and the protections it provides for American farmers against heavily-subsidized […]