We could buy our maritime assets from the Chinese, along with everything else, I suppose.
We’re shipping the rest of our industrial base overseas. Why not ship building too?
Impeach McCain for this, and bring back American jobs.
Sell-out.
“It costs six dollars per barrel to move crude from the Gulf Coast to the Northeast United States on a Jones Act tanker, while a foreign-flag tanker can take that same crude to a refinery in Canada for two dollars per barrel”
Is this true?
I swear John McCain is the original Manchurian Candidate.
Everything he does is to weaken this nation while appearing to do the opposite.
Do everything in your power to increase the cost of manufacturing in America. What happens after that is not rocket science.
Simply lower the federal tax on gas. Oil companies meka 2 - 4 cents per gallon profit. Taxes are as high as .60 per gallon. Maybe higher That doesn’t make sense...does it?!
It’s not like we’ve exported practically every manufacturing job overseas since after the end of WWII.
Manufacturing is the key area of the economy that actually generates more wealth rather than a service jobs that only moves it around a bit.
This is really what the Trans-Canada pipeline is about. Import Tar sands oil from Alberta to be refined on the gulf coast, freeing up the sweet light shale oil for export.
Meanwhile, there are large amounts Bakken shale oil moving by rail to both the east and west coasts.
Export baby export.
EXEMPT McCain is always looking out for
HIMSELF (above the Law, of course, like the other EXEMPT)
and the “rebels” that he turned into ISIS with Obola.
besides killing American shipbuilding industry, another aspect of Jones Act I believe requires 75% of the crew to be American citizens.
now we know what jobs all those somali immigrants will be given.....
I don't know about you but it sure feels like our government NO LONGER represents the American People, but SELL OUTS to the highest bidders.
unfortunately most of the highest bidders tend to be foreign governments. The U.S. Constitution is nothing but a pain is thorn to them.
Not only was he the worst candidate the GOP has had since I can recall, but he would have made a terrible president. I seriously don't think we would have been an better off had this mental case won the White House in 2008 instead of Obama. He snuggles up to the left so often that it is hard to tell whether he's a democRAT or not.
Best evidence yet that we need term limits for some of these old fogies that can't think clearly.
-— “This would mean all ships used by our U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard — which of course will be built in the United States — would have a higher cost per ship due to increased overhead costs, and would have a less reliable industrial base.” -—
A higher cost per unit for the military doesn’t justify protectionism, since higher transportation costs also come out of taxpayers pockets. But “a less reliable industrial base,” which could not be quickly converted to war-time usage, could be a justification for some degree of protectionism.
I believe it makes sense to limit the Jones Act to transport along the internal waterways of the U.S. Beyond that, there's no practical reason to restrict domestic shipping in a way that doesn't apply to international shipping. What exactly does the U.S. gain by forcing a shipper to use an American-made and American-flagged ship and American crew for a trip from New Orleans to New York if there is no such restriction for a trip from Saudi Arabia to New York?
Not really news, just about everything this clown has done his entire career has been against American Interests.
Sorry, but this is a tough call for me. I can see the strategic importance of the Jones Act...as it’s tough to be a world superpower if you don’t have any ships in your name.
On the other hand, try taking a cruise from New York to Miami, for example. You CANNOT. I mean you could, but the ship would have to comply with the Jones Act, and thus be priced out of the range of its market...so no company does that...and hence no cruise options. Same for Alaska - you can certainly take a ship from Vancouver (Canada) to Alaska (international trip and thus Jones compliant), but you cannot take one from Seattle to Alaska, as the Seattle to Alaska ship would have to comply with the Jones Act, but not the Vancouver ship - so you have the pain in the butt of having to go to a foreign land (without gun rights or free speech) and also deal with customs twice, just to get around the Jones Act.
So maybe a compromise - lift the Jones Act for cruise ships, since it isn’t doing US shipping any good, anyway, but keep it for other shipping - for strategic interests.
and you just know that some crony capitalist lobbyist came up with this
First, how many ship ports exist in Arizona?
Second, is the Jones Act protecting bloated, union jobs that contribute to Democrats?
Third, we should not protect industries with mandates like this. If foreign competition has an unfair advantage, their goods should have a tariff imposed. Anything else is unconstitutional nonsense.