Editorial: 2023 Farm Bill must say no to Soviet-style subsidy program

From the Editorial Board: The best sugar program for the U.S. would be no sugar program at all.

Opinion content—editorials, columns and guest commentaries—is created independent of news reporting and is exclusive to subscribers.Mechanical harvesters harvest sugar cane in the fields in Clewiston, Florida, in 2014. A U.S. government farm-subsidy program in effect since the 1930s blocks cheaper imports.

But change will only happen over the objections of politicians who’ve taken six-figure campaign contributions from Big Sugar. So have many other politicians on both sides of the aisle.For decades, the sugar lobby has splashed out megabuck donations to perpetuate its government-sponsored rip-off. In the process, it has undermined Chicago’s longtime role as a candy-making hub by pushing production abroad.

This system is a tour de force of anticompetitive corporate welfare and the fact that it’s still being used to stiff consumers shows the power of single-minded lobbying. Consumers would benefit from letting a freer market prevail, and the industry would get more competitive, as it did in Australia, which ended sugar subsidies years ago and still produces huge quantities at world-market prices.

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