date:Dec 20, 2018
tenable in the 20th century, as Cuba became what the New York Times described as a sugar colossus, capable of producing vast quantities at super lower prices.
The solution? More tariffs, of course. In 1930, for example, a bipartisan coalition of legislators from Louisiana and Michigan home to cane sugar and beet sugar farmers, respectively begged for tariffs, or what the Wall Street Journal derisively described as higher duties to save industries afflicted with an extreme form of prolongation