[Capt. Tom]

Imposing US taxes and labor laws on the cruise industry is the quickest way to destroy the cruise industry. US taxation and labor laws will do to the cruise industry exactly what they’ve done to the US maritime fleet.

People go into business to make money, not to create jobs or get onerous Taxes or regulations put on them.
The Cruise Lines are no different except they have found way to avoid taxes, jut like many individual citizens have. -Tom

[Ann Archy]

AMEN!! PLUS, most Americans do NOT want to work as hard as the Indonesians, Phillipinos, Mauritus, etc.......Canadians don’t want to work that hard either....or Aussies.

[Pontiac]

People go into business to make money, not to create jobs or get onerous Taxes or regulations put on them. The Cruise Lines are no different except they have found way to avoid taxes, jut like many individual citizens have. -Tom

You might also compare the prices of a cruise to the Bahamas or Alaska to a US river or Great Lakes cruise.

You will find that a US cruise of comparable number of days will cost you at least 3 times as much.

The ships are small and the number of passengers is smaller so there are fewer customers to share the cost but also the company has to cover the cost of US taxes and abide by US labor laws.

Businesses do not pay taxes, they collect taxes. Never forget that.

[Responsibility2nd]

People go into business to make money, not to create jobs or get onerous Taxes or regulations put on them.
The Cruise Lines are no different except they have found way to avoid taxes, jut like many individual citizens have. -Tom

 

While this may be true, it does not offset the fact that these foreign corporations are begging the US to bail them out.

Let Panama and Liberia worry about them.