The beloved Oreo is
going to be manufactured in Mexico, and you can thank sugar tariffs designed to
protect one industry over other industries.
"The manufacturer
of Oreo cookies recently announced plans to move production of Oreos from Chicago
to Mexico, resulting in a loss of 600 U.S. jobs.
"This should be a
wake-up call to defenders of the U.S. sugar program and other job-destroying
trade barriers.
"The leading ingredient in Oreos is sugar, and U.S. trade barriers
currently require Americans to pay twice the average world prices for sugar.
"Sugar-using
industries now have a big incentive to relocate from the United States to
countries where access to their primary ingredient is not restricted."
Liberals love to
denounce evil corporations that move jobs oversees in order to save money.
They do, and why shouldn't they? As consumers, such moves keep prices down for
all Americans.
Who's to blame for
moving companies out of the United States? Government. Why would a company want
to spend millions of dollars to save a company if they could save those
millions of dollars by staying in the United States?
High corporate taxes and
burdensome regulations cost businesses money. In order to survive, they either
have to raise prices or cut costs.
It's no different when a
company leaves a high-tax state and moves to a low-tax state.
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