Worse, the government sets the minimum prices for the rest of them. That's not creeping socialism, that's socialism at a full gallop. I'm afraid we'll have to forego milk and cheese for a few years while Cheney straightens out this mess. Socialists have actually crept into our candy bars and breakfast cereals. No free market for these guys.
Government agents protect our borders against cheaper imported sugar.
Thus our domestic growers can produce sugar here at higher prices, and the government buys and pays to store all the surplus. Loggers are sometimes thought to be kissing cousins of the oilmen. Actually, they turned their back on the free market and went socialist a long time ago. This year, with government help, the industry blocked the free market import of lumber from Canada on grounds that Canada's subsidies, oh dear, were higher than ours. In a free market system, they'd face bankruptcy.