Judd Gregg: “the sugar program is the last vestige of gross corporate welfare in the farm community. In the farm bill that was just…”

“the sugar program is the last vestige of gross corporate welfare in the farm community. In the farm bill that was just recently passed, there was a major initiative undertaken to try to put the farm community generally on a more market-oriented approach, although some arguments might claim it is even less market oriented. At least it was an attempt to have some forces brought to bear on what farmers would plant, how much they would plant of a certain commodity which would be something other than a decision made by a Government leader. It would be the marketplace. However, there still exists this sugar program which has just the opposite approach toward financing and growing and creating of sugar in this country. The sugar program, as it is basically structured today, is a classic, what can best be defined as a Marxist system of economics.”