Good Thing We Have Gov't To Protect Us from the Evil Free Market

[wkmac]

WASHINGTON — Makers of sodas, candy bars and other sweetened snacks are taking aim at a long-standing federal program that keeps sugar prices high by restricting imports.
Doing away with the sugar program would be a "huge boost" to candy makers and help them grow, said Robert Simpson Jr., president of Jelly Belly Candy Co., which has factories in Fairfield, Calif., Chicago and Thailand.
But the efforts of manufacturers are sparking intense opposition among lawmakers from sugar-growing states and the sugar lobby, as well as from some public health advocates.

U.S. Sugar Program Pitting Growers Against Soda and Candy Firms

Wonder what would happen if neither the sugar growers or the soda and candy makers had gov't to go to for any reason in the first place? What might America's waistline look like? What about other factors and their associated costs? What unintended consequences have resulted from market interventions?

 

[Catatonic]

Government intervention in the market has made Corporations the biggest freeloaders off the American taxpayer.

 

[Just_another_day_at_work]

Government intervention in the market has made Corporations the biggest freeloaders off the American taxpayer.

Does it called creepy fascism? Because our representatives voted (together both sides) for bailouts, foreign policy, domestic policies etc...

 

[Magdalini]

Government intervention in the market has made Corporations the biggest freeloaders off the American taxpayer.

Kinda ironic, don't you think?