American Mariners Fret Over Attacks on Jones Act
Key sentence: "The union facility was once packed with students working their way up the ranks, but attendance has plunged as the number of U.S.-flagged, oceangoing freighters has fallen from nearly 3,000 in 1960 to fewer than 170 today."
The Jones Act has been a terrible tax on Alaska and Hawaii since its inception. It should be repealed! It is one of the oldest living laws that embodies crony capitalism. As an Alaskan I wish we get two laws changed; open ANWR and repeal the Jones Act!