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it's not a loophole, the law says they have to ship via rail from a different country so that's exactly what they are doing. if the law specifies a minimum dist
by _3u10 5y ago
it's not a loophole, the law says they have to ship via rail from a different country so that's exactly what they are doing. if the law specifies a minimum distance they will build a circular track and run the train long enough to meet the minimum distance. If it specifies track length they will just build track that long, if it specifies minimum geographic distance they will find a further port.
The law is stupid, so this is what it incentivizes, the Jones act is like a Soviet Nail factory.
My business gets credits from our vendors if we bring customers from other competitors, if it's a new customer we have a vendor we work with that provides very cheap options so we sign them up with a competitor, before onboarding them with the vendor. If the customer is with one of our existing vendors we switch them to a different one. EVERYONE is happy, all our vendor reps are making their numbers, executives are making their competitive advances, even the cheap company is making bank because none of the customers ever even use the service.
- allturtles 5y agoI'm not sure why you say this is not a loophole. What you're describing is exactly what a loophole is. A loophole means exploiting the technicalities of the letter of the law to dodge its intent.
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- dane-pgp 5y ago> If it specifies track length they will just build track that long, if it specifies minimum geographic distance they will find a further port. I wonder what the law would have to say to produce the legislators' intended result. Possibly they could require companies to define, for each journey: * Point A - the average(?) location of where the fish are caught, and * Point B - the average(?) location where the fish are sold to the public or stored (for the majority of the time they are stored). Then there could be some requirement that there be two points, C and D, with the following properties: * the fish pass through points C and D on their way from point A to point B, * points C and D are on the main Canadian rail network (such that most rail track in Canada can be reached by a train starting at point C or point D), * the minimum rail distance between points C and D is some percentage P of the straight line distance between A and B, and * the fish travel only by rail between points C and D. The precise value of "P" would have to be chosen by looking at examples of intended paths and thinking of possible unintended paths.