Stop supporting sugar cartels

Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi is in the pocket of the nation's beet and cane sugar cartels, costing Illinoisans dollars at the grocery store and jobs in the food industry. Krishnamoorthi continually votes to maintain the U.S. sugar program. Why? Krishnamoorthi received over $52,000 in political donations from the sugar cartels since coming to Washington in 2017.

Thanks to him and others, the U.S. sugar program continues. It is a Soviet-style command and control scheme that restricts American 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!

The U.S. sugar program means Americans pay $4 billion every year in increased grocery costs, which breaks down to $48 per household.

While all Americans feel the impact of the sugar lobby in the food they buy, many also feel it in the job market. High domestic sugar prices force confectionery manufacturers to cut costs, putting tens of thousands of Americans at risk of losing their jobs. In Krishnamoorthi's four years in office, he repeatedly voted against reforming this corrupt system. 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