{"id":843,"date":"2013-04-26T09:23:08","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T14:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=843"},"modified":"2013-04-26T09:29:09","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T14:29:09","slug":"candy-from-mexico-sugar-from-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=843","title":{"rendered":"Candy from Mexico, Sugar from Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/dumdums_custom-e0b0376cb3fc25a8016eff8bff81ce1e87a3d0bc-s4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-844 alignleft\" alt=\"dumdums\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/dumdums_custom-e0b0376cb3fc25a8016eff8bff81ce1e87a3d0bc-s4-300x197.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/dumdums_custom-e0b0376cb3fc25a8016eff8bff81ce1e87a3d0bc-s4-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/dumdums_custom-e0b0376cb3fc25a8016eff8bff81ce1e87a3d0bc-s4.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> Candy maker, Kirk Vashaw, of Spangler Candy Company, the maker of Dum Dums lollipops states that he could pay no taxes (zero tax rate!) and have no regulations and would still not be able to compete with foreign producers of candy because of the Farm Bill&#8217;s price supports for sugar. \u00a0This price support costs the company $15,000 per day. Hear Zoe Chace&#8217;s report for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/money\/2013\/04\/26\/179087542\/the-lollipop-war\">\u00a0Planet Money<\/a>. \u00a0Read the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usda.gov\/wps\/portal\/usda\/farmbill2008?navid=FARMBILL2008\"> Farm Bil<\/a>l.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Candy maker, Kirk Vashaw, of Spangler Candy Company, the maker of Dum Dums lollipops states that he could pay no taxes (zero tax rate!) and have no regulations and would still not be able to compete with foreign producers of candy because of the Farm Bill&#8217;s price supports for sugar. \u00a0This price support costs the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=843\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Candy from Mexico, Sugar from Minnesota<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[401,399,66,67],"class_list":["post-843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-economics","tag-federal-income-tax","tag-planet-money","tag-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=843"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":847,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions\/847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}