date:Dec 20, 2018
s pay between $2.4 billion and $4 billion more a year than they would under a free-trade regime.
Last spring, the House debated an amendment to the farm bill that would have begun phasing out the quotas and other subsidies to domestic producers. But in a rare show of bipartisanship, legislators from both parties eliminated it from the farm bill passed last week.
It was a bitter defeat for anyone who believes that market forces should have a place in setting prices. But for the nations sugar ti