May 18, 1999
The Sugar Program Reform Act will do what the 1996 farm bill failed to accomplish.
Dan Miller
The Public Record
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May 18, 1999
This legislation is good for consumers, good for the environment, good for American workers, and good for the economy.
— Dan Miller
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May 18, 1999
The sugar program is an archaic, unnecessary government handout to corporate sugar producers at the expense of consumers, workers, and the environment.
May 18, 1999
Finally, it hampers our ability to expand trade opportunities for America's farmers.
May 18, 1999
It devastates the environment, particularly the fragile Everglades in my home State of Florida.
May 18, 1999
As a result, the sugar program imposes a 'sugar tax' on consumers, forcing them to pay more than $1 billion in higher prices for food and sugar every year.
May 18, 1999
The sugar program's sole purpose is to prop up the price of sugar in the United States through a complex system of low-interest, nonrecourse loans and tight import restrictions.
May 18, 1999
The sugar program is the 'sugar daddy' of corporate welfare. Why? Because most of the benefits of this program go to huge corporate sugar producers, not the typical family farmer.
May 18, 1999
Today myself, Representative George Miller and more than 40 of our colleagues are introducing the Sugar Program Reform Act, a bill to phase out the sugar program by the end of 2002.
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