How The Government Sank Our Shipping Industry
Episode 65 August 17, 2021On this episode of Common Sense Soapbox, Seamus explains to Sarah, Bob, and Ron how the hundred-year-old Jones Act makes the American shipping industry way more expensive than it needs to be. In short, an act that was supposed to protect the industry actually ended up killing it. Watch the episode to learn how.
CREDITS:
Written by Seamus Coughlin and Sean W. Malone
Research by Matt Hampton & Tyler Brandt
Storyboards by Jett Atwood
Animation by Seamus Coughlin, Natasha Borrero, Caleb Black, Jaime Velasquez, Amazil
Produced & Edited by Sean W. Malone
LINKS:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/jones-act-explained-waiving-means-puerto-rico
https://time.com/4961159/what-is-jones-act-puerto-rico/
https://www.commodityresearchgroup.com/unintended-consequences-of-the-jones-act-new-boston-post/
https://www.royalcaribbean.com/faq/questions/jones-act
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/effects-of-the-jones-act/
https://www.cato.org/blog/jones-act-should-be-waived-more-substantive-changes-are-needed
https://www.cato.org/cato-online-forum/needed-cost-benefit-analysis-jones-act
https://www.cato.org/policy-report/january/february-2019/anchors-awry-jones-act-debate
https://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/jones-act-burden-america-can-no-longer-bear
https://www.facebook.com/LiterallySpikeCohen/posts/328548928894129
About the Hosts
Seamus Coughlin is a comedy writer and animator with a deep interest in politics and morality. After graduating high school, he started a small business in animation production and led small teams of animators on various projects while studying at his local community college. Today, Seamus continues producing entertaining animated content for a number of outlets, and a good deal of his work can be…
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Sean W. Malone studied music performance and composition for film and multimedia at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Bachelor of Music, 2005) and New York University (Master of Arts, 2007), before working in various creative roles in the music and film industries in New York and Los Angeles.
In 2011, he relocated to Washington, DC to develop professional media production capabilities at various…
Jen Maffessanti was a Senior Writer at FEE and is a mother of two. She is now Director of Communications of the Libertas Institute. When she's not advocating for liberty or chasing kids, she can usually be found cooking or maybe racing cars. Check out her website.
