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India is the world’s no. 1 rice exporter, and any move to limit the commodity could threaten to plunge millions more into hunger and boost inflation risks, at a time when crops like wheat and corn are soaring.
By Chuck Muth, President, Citizen Outreach Well, another Valentine’s Day has come and gone, but not without the usual attack by Big Candy’s sweet-talkers on America’s sugar farmers. Ross Marchand of the Taxpayers Protection Alliance weighed in with a weekend column calling to “end the not-so-sweet sugar program” and urging President Biden to “cut out this confectionary con job.” Mr. Marchand’s column is filled with de rigueur misinformation about the U.S. sugar program, including the false claim that sugar farmers in America receive government subsidies and that targeted restr...