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The Cato Institute is a conservative think tank. Repealing Jones would effectively kill a huge amount of the US maritime industry and related jobs. Literally o
by mperham 4y ago
The Cato Institute is a conservative think tank.
Repealing Jones would effectively kill a huge amount of the US maritime industry and related jobs. Literally offshoring those jobs to foreign ships and wage slave crews. Just like we offshored union manufacturing jobs to China in the 80s and 90s.
We can discuss ways to make it more efficient but keeping jobs onshore has very real benefits. It's the core of our middle class.
- photochemsyn 4y agoI think the operational description of the Cato Institute is that of 'neoliberal ideologue', not necessarily 'conservative' or 'liberal' (not that those two latter terms have much meaning anymore, there more like keys to rather mutable dictionary entrys whose meaning fluctuates with the daily political intrigues). Neoliberal is a bit easier to define, it's basically the notion that international pools of capital should be liberated from the restrictions imposed by the persistence of nation-states.
- eru 4y agoThe Jones act has already made sure that the US maritime industry is tiny.
- JAlexoid 4y agoConsidering that CATO has been blamed to be liberal, conservative and everything under the sun - they've had a very consistent view on many issues, that opponents come up with labels to try to smear them.