It's difficult to keep a critique of the Jones Act to a moderate length, because it's bad in so many ways. Here's some extras that didn't make the final cut:
--To dodge inflated Jones Act shipping rates, Hawaiian cattle producers have shipped cows to Canada and then transported them by road into the United States, or even *flown* them to the USA Source: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/554046425
--Per the Cato Institute study, Maryland and Virginia obtain rock salt "from distant Chile instead of domestically, despite the United States being the world's largest producer"
--If you want to fully appreciate the red tape surrounding requirements that Jones Act ships are made of American materials, check out this letter from the Coast Guard to a firm seeking to ensure its vessel will be Jones Act-compliant: https://www.winston.com/images/content/8/8/v2/88110/akertankers.pdf
--19th century economist Henry George said "“What protection teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.”
It's difficult to keep a critique of the Jones Act to a moderate length, because it's bad in so many ways. Here's some extras that didn't make the final cut:
--To dodge inflated Jones Act shipping rates, Hawaiian cattle producers have shipped cows to Canada and then transported them by road into the United States, or even *flown* them to the USA Source: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/554046425
--Per the Cato Institute study, Maryland and Virginia obtain rock salt "from distant Chile instead of domestically, despite the United States being the world's largest producer"
--If you want to fully appreciate the red tape surrounding requirements that Jones Act ships are made of American materials, check out this letter from the Coast Guard to a firm seeking to ensure its vessel will be Jones Act-compliant: https://www.winston.com/images/content/8/8/v2/88110/akertankers.pdf
--19th century economist Henry George said "“What protection teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.”