Courtney's sugar means higher prices

Congressman Joe Courtney is in the pocket of the nation's beet and cane sugar cartels. Courtney continually votes to maintain the U.S. sugar program. Why? It is really quite simple, Courtney received over $65,000 in political donations from the sugar cartels since coming to Washington in 2007

Thanks to Courtney and others, the Soviet-style U.S. sugar program continues. It is a command and control scheme that restricts planting and imports. This inflates the price of sugar in the United States to almost double the world price. So, when you go to the store to buy a snack cake or anything sweetened, you pay more! According to the Congressional Budget Office, the program means Americans pay $3.5 billion every year in increased grocery costs, or $58 per household.

In Courtney's 10 years in office, he repeatedly voted against sugar reform. You have to ask yourself, is my congressman really fighting to make life better, or is he just another politician in it for the campaign contributions? It's time for Courtney to step up and end this costly government giveaway to the cartels!

The Independent Bakers' Association is an international trade association that fights to protect the interests of mostly family-owned wholesale bakers and allied trades. For more information about IBA and sugar program corruption, visit IBAbaker.com. Nicholas A. Pyle, President Independent Bakers' Association Washington, D.C.