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This free market you are thinking about has never existed in the United States, except maybe during the Articles of Confederation. Article I of the constitutio
by Kon-Peki 4y ago
This free market you are thinking about has never existed in the United States, except maybe during the Articles of Confederation. Article I of the constitution explicitly states that "The Congress shall have Power ... To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;"
- Robotbeat 4y agoIrrelevant. Free market arguments don’t rely on the Constitutional as their Holy Writ. You’re doing next-word-prediction here (those who often make “free market” arguments will often market themselves as Constitutional originalists or something), not logical reasoning.
- Kon-Peki 4y ago"anti competitive" "not really like a free market" "China vibes." Logical reasoning suggests that the author believes that the Jones Act is un-American. I'm not stating my personal opinion on the Jones Act itself but pointing out that the regulation of international and interstate commerce is, by definition, as American as it gets. It was uncontroversial back then and it is uncontroversial now. The Congress can pass these laws. There aren't a whole lot of things that are spelled out in the unamended constitution, but this is one of them. Whether they should maintain this particular law is a totally different issue.