Today the front page of the Wall Street Journal published an article (subscription required) focusing on the current fight to increase the amount of sugar certain countries can export duty-free to the U.S.  Those quotas are part of the U.S. sugar program, together with the program’s price supports and domestic production restrictions; it has long needed to be dismantled.  But the major opportunity to do so - the last farm bill —  just made the sugar program worse.  The  centrally controlled program results…

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