Alan Simpson: “I agree with what my friend said earlier, the gentleman from Nebraska (Mr. Osborne), when he said ``I do not understand…”

“I agree with what my friend said earlier, the gentleman from Nebraska (Mr. Osborne), when he said ``I do not understand why the sugar beet growers in Idaho and Nebraska and other States ought to be paying for the restoration of the Florida Everglades,'' as much as I like the Florida Everglades. But let me talk for just a minute if I can about Bob's Candies, because Bob's has been mentioned several time here. Bob's came and testified before our committee. They said they had to build a plant in Mexico because they could get sugar cheaper there than they could get it in the United States. They could not compete here in the United States. I found that ironic because the retail price of sugar in Mexico is more expensive than it is in the United States. So I thought, there must be some other reason that they are going to Mexico, labor costs or something else. But then he explained it to me. He said that in Mexico, the Mexican government will allow them to buy the world dump price of sugar, make the candy, and then export it to the United States; but they cannot sell that candy that is made with dump price sugar in Mexico. Do Members not find that rather ironic? Mr. Chairman, there is not a free market out there in sugar.”