Jeff Miller: “Today I rise to advocate the phaseout of the Government-run sugar program in this country. The Government-run sugar…”

“Today I rise to advocate the phaseout of the Government-run sugar program in this country. The Government-run sugar program is a cartel that the Government regulates that is very much antifree enterprise, it is anticonsumer, it is antienvironment, and it is anti-jobs in this country. We will have a chance later on this week during the farm bill reauthorization to vote on a 5-year phaseout of this program in the Federal Government. The day of big government is over, and this is a big government program that should be phased out. The sugar program in the country today is a big government program that keeps the price of sugar at twice the world price. The sugar program is a cartel where the Federal Government controls the total supply of sugar in the United States and as such keeps the price of sugar at twice the world price. The Federal Government tells every individual sugar farmer in the United States how many pounds of sugar he can sell today.”