Optometrist Ally Sings: Signs, Signs, Everywhere a Sign
(Chuck Muth) – Have you ever noticed the various workplace signs hanging in retail stores and business offices outlining labor laws, safety rules, employment non-discrimination prohibitions, etc.?...
View ArticleFigures Don’t Lie even though Sugar Program Critics Pervert Them
(Chuck Muth) – There is nothing simple about the global sugar market. Indeed, sugar remains the most government-manipulated agricultural commodity on the planet. Which is why those urging Congress to...
View ArticleRepealing Commerce Tax is the Right Thing to Do
(Michael Schaus) – Much like government entitlement programs, it seems there is nothing more permanent in this world than a newly-enacted tax. However, soon, Nevada taxpayers might have an opportunity...
View ArticlePakistani Export Subsidies Make Case for Continuing U.S. Sugar Program
(Chuck Muth) – When you think of Pakistan, odds are “sugar” isn’t exactly the first thing that comes to mind. However, as Syed Ali Sajjad noted in a column published this week in The Express Tribune,...
View ArticleLocust Point Shipment Wrecks False Narrative by Sugar Program Critics
(Chuck Muth) – One of the biggest propaganda points spread by opponents of the U.S. sugar program is the idea that sugar imports into the U.S. are completely blocked. But that’s simply not true....
View ArticleA Common Sense Answer to Sugar Program Hysteria
(Chuck Muth) – Nicholas A. Pyle, the chief lobbyist for the Independent Baker’s Association, has recently been spreading a series of almost identical op-eds to newspapers across the country the way...
View ArticleCandy Man Throwing Stones from Glass House on Capitol Hill
(Chuck Muth) – A report in The Hill last week noted the introduction of legislation in both the House and the Senate to gut the U.S. sugar program, which protects American sugar farmers and refiners...
View ArticleIn Global Sugar Wars, Congress Absolutely Should Pick U.S. Farmers
(Chuck Muth) – Big Candy lobbyists and some Members of Congress are once again attempting to gut the U.S. sugar program in the new Farm Bill in a manner that constitutes nothing short of unilateral...
View ArticleU.S. Sugar Producers Strike Back at “Sugar Farmer Bankruptcy Bill”
(Chuck Muth, President, Citizen Outreach) – Using cherry-picked contribution figures, Nicolas Pyle, chief lobbyists for the Independent Baker’s Association, has been conducting a cut-and-paste letter...
View ArticleCongress Should Focus on What’s Actually Broken in Global Sugar Market
(Chuck Muth) – On December 4th, policy analyst Ted Ellis took after the U.S. sugar program using the same tired, old and discredited arguments opponents have been peddling for years, the biggest of...
View ArticleDonut Shop Owner’s Pitch Against Sugar Program Filled with More Holes than...
(Chuck Muth, President, Citizen Outreach) – Charlie Burnside owns Maple Donuts in Springettsbury Township, PA. And by all accounts he’s not only great at making donuts but isn’t afraid to get involved...
View ArticleDear Congress: Don’t Fix U.S. Sugar Program that Ain’t Broke
(Chuck Muth) – New efforts to gut the U.S. sugar program – which protects American sugar producers from foreign competitors that are propped up by government subsidies – are being supported by folks...
View ArticleTo Start the Year, a Little Truth-Telling about the U.S. Sugar Program
Meet the New Year. Same as the old year. At least as far as critics of the highly successful U.S. sugar program are concerned. 2017 closed out with another “template” letter-to-the-editor by...
View ArticleSugar Farmers Swing Back at Infamous “Pyle Letters”
(Chuck Muth) – Nick Pyle, chief lobbyist and “attack dog” for the Independent Bakers’ Association, is as relentless as he is redundant. His misleading, months-old national campaign of cut-and-paste...
View ArticleTrump Doctrine on Fair Trade Mirrors Existing U.S. Sugar Program
(Chuck Muth, President, Citizen Outreach) – Following recommendations by the U.S. International Trade Commission, President Donald Trump this week slapped a 30 percent tariff on imported solar-energy...
View ArticleAnti-Sugar Program Rhetoric Grossly Overhyped and Extraordinarily High
(Chuck Muth) – In a recent guest op-ed published by the Daily Caller, Ross Marchand, Director of Policy for the Taxpayers Protection Alliance, argued against a proposal by Rep. Ted Yoho (R-Fla.) in...
View ArticleTo End Sugar Subsidies, Conservatives Can’t Launch a Frontal Attack
(Rick Manning) – As predictable as the changing seasons in Vermont, when the farm bill needs reauthorization, the same old tired mantra to end sugar subsidies and all will be well begins to be heard....
View ArticleA Free-Market Argument for a Smart Trade Policy on Sugar
(Chuck Muth) – As lobbyists and PR firms for Big Candy, Inc. continue their legislative efforts in Congress to gut the U.S. sugar program – which protects American farmers from foreign competitors...
View ArticleThe False Argument about “Exorbitant” Sugar Prices
(Chuck Muth) – According to WIVB News 4 reporter Chris Horvatis last week… “Ford Gum and Machine Company is calling for a major change to federal policy. The CEO of the Akron-based company, which...
View ArticleIt’s Not a Free Market if the Government Makes it “Compulsory”
(Chuck Muth, President, Citizen Outreach) – Earlier this month President Trump imposed tariffs on foreign competitors to the U.S. steel and aluminum industries – with temporary exemptions for Mexico...
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