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Re:It’s Time to Repeal the Jones Act by tablespoon on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @12:40PM (#33264674)
> The problem is, the Jones Act has harmed our shipbuilding capacity as well. According to the artcle our ship building capacity is 1% of China's and US built ships cost 6-8 times as much. That's not helpful.

So better have ship building capacity at 0% of China's and it be impossible to buy US built ships at any cost?

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Re:It’s Time to Repeal the Jones Act by yellowapple on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @01:13PM (#33265096)
That, or make it easier to start up domestic shipbuilders.

In a vacuum, the Jones Act should be encouraging the construction of new shipyards and/or freight rail infrastructure. That neither seems to have happened suggests that other barriers exist, and those barriers need addressed, Jones Act or no.

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