Sugar

[Chris]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MepXBJjsNxs

[Captain Obvious]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CulUHqVhD4

[PolWatch]

hmm...I just bought about $30.00 worth of candy for Halloween...we do buy stuff that we like if we don't get many trick or treaters.....its been 5 years since one came to the house...

[silvereyes]

Darn. I thought you were offering me some sugar. Lol

[del]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9nE2spOw_o

[Chris]

Was going to compete with del but found this instead...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12fR9neVnS8

[silvereyes]

Lol

[Chris]

Not what you were looking for? :sad:

[silvereyes]

Lol. Sugah sugah!

[del]

Was going to compete with del but found this instead...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12fR9neVnS8

very cool

i'm surprised estes hasn't tried to pull it

[Shadow]

hmm...I just bought about $30.00 worth of candy for Halloween...we do buy stuff that we like if we don't get many trick or treaters.....its been 5 years since one came to the house...
I am the opposite . I buy stuff we won't eat so we won't be tempted. But then we get quite a few trick or treaters in our area.

[momsapplepie]

Have a big bag of mixed candy ready to go, what's better is not having broke it open yet!

[Dark Mistress]

In a moment of weakness I opened one of four bags for the trick or treaters. We live in a teeny town. I like to give 'em handfuls!

[Chris]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA-VSR3gvYo#t=107

[Chris]

On a serious note...

Sugar Subsidies Make Halloween Candy Much More Expensive, Leave Sour After-Taste (http://reason.com/blog/2014/10/29/sugar-subsidies-make-halloween-candy-muc)


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With Halloween just days away, Americans are ready to consume a scary amount of sweets. Each year, Americans buy about 600 million pounds of candy for eager trick-or-treaters, the Neilsen Company reports. Americans consume 15 billion pounds of candy each year, so Halloween alone accounts for about 4 percent of our annual indulgence. The National Retail Federation estimates $2.2 billion in candy sales this year, up from $2.08 billion in 2013.

The price of candy is inflated thanks to federal programs designed to support U.S. makers of sugar. First, the government imposes protectionist tariffs on imports so prices aren't lowered via market competition. Then, the government sets up an industry planning board to "scientifically determine" how much output sugar companies can legally produce each year; after that, market shares assigned to preferred private corporations. Any output that exceeds a company's government quota must be stockpiled—or destroyed (the board determines the exact course of action on a case-by-case basis.) To sweeten the deal, the government extends cheap taxpayer-backed loans to these same privileged corporations.

As a result of such actions, U.S. consumers and businesses pay on average about twice the world price of sugar....