Dredge Act News Today

Two laws — the Jones Act and Foreign Dredge Act — make it more expensive to move gas, food, and all kinds of goods. But we still can't get rid of them

There are a lot of ludicrously terrible government laws, regulations and policies across all the domains of life. My Covid posts have covered quite a lot of them. Yet if I had to pick one policy that was the Platonic ideal of stupid, the thing that has almost zero upside and also has the best ratio of 'amount of damage this is doing to America’ versus ‘reasons why we can’t stop being idiots about this’ there is (so far) a clear winner.