Resolution 128-1995
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Mayor Shirley Freeman
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A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS OF MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA,
URGING THE MONROE COUNTY CONGRESSIONAL
DELEGATION TO END FEDERAL SUGAR SUBSIDY
PROGRAMS.
128 -1995
WHEREAS, the Florida sugarcane industry reaps huge financial benefits -- at
taxpayer expense -- from federal government programs which effectively
subsidize sugar production; and
WHEREAS, this price support program subsidizes sugar production in the
United States by restricting sugar imports, resulting in artificially inflated prices for
domestic sugar; and
WHEREAS, the effect of this program is more than double the price of raw
sugar in the United States, thereby substantially increasing the price paid by
American consumers for sugar and products containing sugar; and
WHEREAS, this program also intensifies sugar production in Florida which
damages the Everglades and wastes the fresh water supply vital to South Florida's
economy;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS OF MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA, as follows:
Section 1. The Monroe County Board of County Commissioners, on
behalf of our citizens, hereby states our opposition to the continuation of the
federal sugar price support program; we support a growing bloc in Congress
which views such subsidies as "corporate welfare" programs.
Section 2. The Board hereby urges Congressman Peter Deutsch, Senator
Bob Graham and Senator Connie Mack, during the 1995 Farm Bill which is up for
reauthorization this year, to pledge their support for the elimination of the sugar
price support program from this Bill.
Section 3. The Clerk of the Board is hereby directed to forward certified
copies of this Resolution to the Monroe County Congressional Delegation.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of County Commissioners of Monroe
County, Florida, at a regular meeting of the Board held on the 18th
day of
April, 1995.
Mayor Freeman
Mayor Pro T em London
Commissioner Douglass
Commissioner Harvey
Commissioner Reich
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ATTEST: DANNY L. KOLHAGE, CLERK
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
OF MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA
By J4..w. c. f;J.~~
Deputy Clerk
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