"Those policies include the federal sugar program that intentionally limits the supply of sugar, thus driving up sugar prices. That costs consumers as much as $3.7 billion a year. There’s also the Jones Act, which drives up shipping costs and makes it more difficult to transport goods that are important to the food sector. In fact, in October, millions of pounds of Alaskan seafood were being blocked from coming into the United States via Canada due to the Jones Act"