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Most folks expect their elected officials to support U.S. farmers, local jobs, fair trade and affordable prices at the grocery store.
Congressman Mike Thompson does all of those things by backing U.S. sugar policy.
Sugar policy operates without taxpayer cost, helps thousands of farms from California to Florida and backs 142,000 jobs nationwide, including hundreds at the local C&H refinery.
What’s more, the price of sugar today is actually cheaper than it was in 1980.
Amazingly, the congressman was personally attacked by a D.C. lobbyist, Nicholas Pyle, for defending local jobs.
Pyle is paid to promote the outsourcing of U.S. sugar production to subsidized foreign industries that break international trade law and employ child and slave labor.
His clients hope Congress will reward these bad actors to the detriment of U.S. farmers and workers so they can save a couple of pennies a pound on ingredient costs.
That’s terrible policy. Made in America means something to most reasonable people. Too bad D.C. attack dogs like Pyle aren’t paid to be reasonable.
Phillip Hayes represents the American Sugar Alliance, based in Arlington, Va.
Congressman Mike Thompson does all of those things by backing U.S. sugar policy.
Sugar policy operates without taxpayer cost, helps thousands of farms from California to Florida and backs 142,000 jobs nationwide, including hundreds at the local C&H refinery.
What’s more, the price of sugar today is actually cheaper than it was in 1980.
Amazingly, the congressman was personally attacked by a D.C. lobbyist, Nicholas Pyle, for defending local jobs.
Pyle is paid to promote the outsourcing of U.S. sugar production to subsidized foreign industries that break international trade law and employ child and slave labor.
His clients hope Congress will reward these bad actors to the detriment of U.S. farmers and workers so they can save a couple of pennies a pound on ingredient costs.
That’s terrible policy. Made in America means something to most reasonable people. Too bad D.C. attack dogs like Pyle aren’t paid to be reasonable.
Phillip Hayes represents the American Sugar Alliance, based in Arlington, Va.
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Congressman Mike Thompson (D-CA-5) is in the pocket of the nation's beet and cane sugar cartels!
Thompson continually votes to maintain the U.S. Sugar program. Why? It is really quite simple, Congressman Thompson received well over $96,000 in political donations from the sugar cartels since coming to Washington in 1999.
Thanks to Rep. Thompson and others, the U.S. Sugar Program continues. The Sugar Program is a Soviet-style command and control scheme that restricts planting and imports. This inflates the price of sugar in the United States to almost double the world price. So, when you go to the store to buy a snack cake or anything sweetened, you pay more!
According to the Congressional Budget Office, the program means Americans pay $3.5 billion every year in increased grocery costs, which breaks down to of upwards of $50 per family.
In Rep. Thompson's 18 years in office, he repeatedly voted against sugar reform costing each California family an additional $900 for groceries.
You have to ask yourself, is my Congressman really fighting to make life better, or is he just another politician in it for the campaign contributions?
It's time for Congressman Thompson to step up and end this costly government giveaway to the cartels!
The Independent Bakers' Association is an international trade association that fights to protect the interests of mostly family owned wholesale bakers and allied trades. For more information about IBA and sugar program corruption, visit www.IBAbaker.com.
Nicholas A. Pyle is president of the Independent Bakers' Association.
Thompson continually votes to maintain the U.S. Sugar program. Why? It is really quite simple, Congressman Thompson received well over $96,000 in political donations from the sugar cartels since coming to Washington in 1999.
Thanks to Rep. Thompson and others, the U.S. Sugar Program continues. The Sugar Program is a Soviet-style command and control scheme that restricts planting and imports. This inflates the price of sugar in the United States to almost double the world price. So, when you go to the store to buy a snack cake or anything sweetened, you pay more!
According to the Congressional Budget Office, the program means Americans pay $3.5 billion every year in increased grocery costs, which breaks down to of upwards of $50 per family.
In Rep. Thompson's 18 years in office, he repeatedly voted against sugar reform costing each California family an additional $900 for groceries.
You have to ask yourself, is my Congressman really fighting to make life better, or is he just another politician in it for the campaign contributions?
It's time for Congressman Thompson to step up and end this costly government giveaway to the cartels!
The Independent Bakers' Association is an international trade association that fights to protect the interests of mostly family owned wholesale bakers and allied trades. For more information about IBA and sugar program corruption, visit www.IBAbaker.com.
Nicholas A. Pyle is president of the Independent Bakers' Association.
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