Common Sense Soapbox
About this show
Short videos with a punchy, comedic tone and entertaining Socratic characters taking on trending issues and important concepts from a classical liberal perspective, written & animated by Seamus Coughlin.
How The Government Sank Our Shipping Industry
August 17, 2021
On 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