{"id":255436,"date":"2025-11-01T12:35:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T12:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/255436\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T12:35:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T12:35:11","slug":"why-subsidise-sugar-when-cheaper-options-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/255436\/","title":{"rendered":"Why subsidise sugar when cheaper options exist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SPECIAL REPORT | Why is the sugar subsidy, which burdens the government\u2019s coffers by up to RM500 million a year, being continued &#8211; especially when diabetes has already become a national crisis?<\/p>\n<p>And why does the government maintain the subsidy when there are companies that can sell it at a cheaper price even without subsidies?<\/p>\n<p>The above are among the questions confusing even officers within the Domestic Trade and Cost of Living Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Madani government\u2019s decision to continue the sugar subsidy is baffling,\u201d said one ministry officer, who requested anonymity.<\/p>\n<p>The view was shared by several other officers who&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPECIAL REPORT | Why is the sugar subsidy, which burdens the government\u2019s coffers by up to RM500 million&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-255436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}