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Modify the Jones act so that the ships don't need to be built in the US, they just need to be owned and flagged by US companies. Labor costs for running the shi
by pg_bot 5y ago
Modify the Jones act so that the ships don't need to be built in the US, they just need to be owned and flagged by US companies. Labor costs for running the ships are a rounding error when compared to the purchase price of the ship and fuel costs. You just don't need that many people to run these large ships and you can already have ~30% of staff be foreign anyway.