"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 n

"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.