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12. "Who is he trying to help?" ... Florida's 'Big Sugar' industry

The ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ contains an ugly favor for Florida’s sugar industry
Big boost in subsidy for the polluters from Big Sugar will make the cost go even higher for consumers already battered by high prices.

The feds already prop up our sugar industry with expensive government subsidies. This bill boosts that subsidy even higher, from 19.75 cents per pound to 24 cents per pound.

Bear in mind that the sugar industry produces about 8 million tons of sugar every year. A hike of a nickel on a pound of sugar equals an awful lot of dough.

“It’s egregious that this polluting industry — which Florida taxpayers have paid well over $2 billion to clean up after — is poised to reap even more profits if this budget bill passes the U.S. Senate,” said Eve Samples, executive director of Friends of the Everglades.

Samples questioned how boosting the profits of the sugar industry fits in with the goals of an administration that says it’s going to “Make America Healthy Again.”

Maybe in this case the slogan should be altered to “Make Big Sugar’s Profits Healthy.”