In the Annals of Chutzpah Big Sugar Takes the Cake

The Urban Dictionary defines chutzpah as "unmitigated effrontery or impudence; gall." An advertisement that ran earlier this month in the Washington Post in support of maintaining sugar import quotas by the American Sugar Alliance fits that definition to a "T." See below:

Credit: Big Sugar

Never mind that lifting the import quotas would benefit candy companies, it would also benefit consumers to the tune of nearly $3 billion per year. Congress has been propping up Big Sugar for decades. This needs to stop! Greed indeed.

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