And "fructose is
poison"
And Nixon is the culprit... lol
Forbes: "top beneficiaries of big sugar’s influence for the current election cycle include Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Tom Harkin, D-Iowa ($35,400)"
SC019/SC019: The History of U.S. Sugar Protection
The first Sugar Act, known as the Jones-Costigan Act, became law on May 9, 1934.[erm... that's FDR] Its main six features were as follows:
1.the determination each year of the quantity of sugar needed to supply the nation's requirements at prices reasonable to consumers and fair to producers;
2.the division of the U.S. sugar market among the domestic and foreign supplying areas by the use of quotas and subordinate limitations on offshore direct consumption sugar;
3.the allotment of these quotas among the various processors in each domestic area;
4.the adjustment of production in each domestic area to the established quota;
5.the levying of a tax on the processing of sugarcane and sugar beets, the proceeds of which were to be used to make payments to producers to compensate them for adjusting their production to marketing quotas to increase their income;
6.the equitable division of sugar returns among beet and cane processors, growers, and farm workers.
The U.S. Congress repealed the processing tax (declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in early 1936) and payment provisions. The President [FDR] recommended new legislation that resulted in the enactment of the Sugar Act of 1937. The new Act contained an excise tax that was unrelated to government payments to growers, which would be made out of the U.S. Treasury from funds appropriated for that purpose. Quota allocations resulting from any market expansion were to be shared proportionally by both domestic and foreign areas. This Sugar Act was originally scheduled to expire in 1940 but was extended to 1941, then from 1941 to 1944, from 1944 to 1946, and again from 1946 through December 31, 1947.
