On the recordMay 17, 2018
This amendment is not only about being against a Soviet-style regime and the quotas and a variety of other things that come with it, but this amendment is, hopefully, about common sense. The one thing we don't want to subsidize are the things that cause us problems. We are now spending more than a quarter of a trillion dollars in healthcare costs as type 2 diabetes has ballooned. To give you the exact number, $327 billion a year is spent on type 2 diabetes. So the idea of saying let's subsidize our sugar so that we can then spend more on healthcare is something that needs to be looked at.
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