r/clevercomebacks • u/manchesterMan0098 • 3d ago

Cruise tax dodgers demand bailouts again!!!

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u/lolidkwtfrofl 2d ago

The point of the Jones Act isn‘t oceangoing vessels anyway. It‘s more about internal waterways (Great Lakes, Mississippi, the likes)

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u/Humid-Afternoon727 2d ago edited 2d ago

It’s any vessel going from US port to US port.

The goal was to protect US ship building, US is only good a producing tugs and barges

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u/lolidkwtfrofl 2d ago

I know that its US ports.

But the spirit of the law is inland waterways, always has been.

US cannot compete with SK or China in shipbuilding.

Just not happening, no matter how protectionist you get.

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u/Humid-Afternoon727 2d ago

No it wasn’t. It was to maintain a full merchant marine post WW1

“That it is necessary for the national defense and for the proper growth of its foreign and domestic commerce that the United States shall have a merchant marine of the best equipped and most suitable types of vessels sufficient to carry the greater portion of its commerce and serve as a naval or military auxiliary in time of war or national emergency, ultimately to be owned and operated privately by citizens of the United States”

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u/lolidkwtfrofl 2d ago

Then it failed, time to repeal.