1) Cut government spending\
2) ENCOURAGE oil and gas exploration and drilling
3) end the student loan moratorium
4) repeal tariffs on countries other than China
5) repeal buy America provisions
6) repeal prevailing wage rules pertaining to public projects
7) repeal the new 15% ethanol limits roll back to 10% RAISING food prices!
8) repeal new environmental rules on infrastructure projects that raise costs
9) suspend the Jones Act and open up shipping at our ports. The leg from Los Angeles to Hawaii is an interstate trip rather than international trip. As such, it would be subject to the Jones Act, which specifies that ships carrying cargo between two American ports must: 1) be built in the United States, 2) be 75 percent owned by U.S. citizens, 3) be 75 percent manned by a U.S. citizen crew, and 4) fly the U.S. flag.
Jones Act
As a result of these restrictions, the U.S. economy endures artificially inflated shipping costs because the transport of cargo between U.S. ports and within the country’s vast inland waterways is off‐limits to foreign competition and domestic shipping firms must pay vastly higher prices for the ships they use. Although higher shipping rates are the most obvious cost of the Jones Act, they are merely the first in a cascade of adverse consequences unleashed by the law’s restrictions.
Supporters of the status quo claim that those costs are justified by the benefits associated with the Jones Act, which include — most importantly — preservation of a robust, competitive domestic shipbuilding industry to undergird U.S. national security. But such claims are farcical. Over the years, U.S. shipbuilding capacity has atrophied, the active fleet has aged — in some cases into obsolescence — and the number of merchant mariners has dwindled.
So we spend more because of an Archaic law.
But Biden won't do any of the above because of Unions, manufacturers ( union) , climate nuts, progressive voting block.
So we suffer....................
2) ENCOURAGE oil and gas exploration and drilling
3) end the student loan moratorium
4) repeal tariffs on countries other than China
5) repeal buy America provisions
6) repeal prevailing wage rules pertaining to public projects
7) repeal the new 15% ethanol limits roll back to 10% RAISING food prices!
8) repeal new environmental rules on infrastructure projects that raise costs
9) suspend the Jones Act and open up shipping at our ports. The leg from Los Angeles to Hawaii is an interstate trip rather than international trip. As such, it would be subject to the Jones Act, which specifies that ships carrying cargo between two American ports must: 1) be built in the United States, 2) be 75 percent owned by U.S. citizens, 3) be 75 percent manned by a U.S. citizen crew, and 4) fly the U.S. flag.
Jones Act
As a result of these restrictions, the U.S. economy endures artificially inflated shipping costs because the transport of cargo between U.S. ports and within the country’s vast inland waterways is off‐limits to foreign competition and domestic shipping firms must pay vastly higher prices for the ships they use. Although higher shipping rates are the most obvious cost of the Jones Act, they are merely the first in a cascade of adverse consequences unleashed by the law’s restrictions.
Supporters of the status quo claim that those costs are justified by the benefits associated with the Jones Act, which include — most importantly — preservation of a robust, competitive domestic shipbuilding industry to undergird U.S. national security. But such claims are farcical. Over the years, U.S. shipbuilding capacity has atrophied, the active fleet has aged — in some cases into obsolescence — and the number of merchant mariners has dwindled.
So we spend more because of an Archaic law.
But Biden won't do any of the above because of Unions, manufacturers ( union) , climate nuts, progressive voting block.
So we suffer....................
