I bought a 10 meter boat from Uncle Sam at a government auction. The boat was built in Norway for the U.S. Navy. Under Jones Act, to use this boat in "coastwise trade" (say.. a dive charter boat..), it must be U.S. built. There are exceptions though.. foreign-builds which are captured as war prize or seized/forfeit for smuggling or other lawbreaking... and then sold from U.S. federal custody at auction, qualify for these exceptions. My boat (like those..) was sold from Federal possession.. but mine LACKS THE CRIMINAL HISTORY necessary to qualify her for the exceptions which would make her eligible for coastwise trade. Instead of smuggling crap into the U.S., my boat spent 35 years SERVING the U.S. Navy.. and Jones Act puts the ex-smuggler boat ahead of mine in priority. STUPID law!
This is what you get when you make laws, and people find a way of (non)-complying. PS: Judge Sharon Gleason waived the $360 million dollar fined assessed by US Customs, but declared the shipping company non-compliant with the Jones Act. The train operation ceased and the tracks were removed.
@@AtGnat8 They followed the letter of the law. The law should have been written better. I promise you the statute is voluminous enough to have not allowed this. They simply needed to add a few words.
@@koriko88 Perhaps. But all there is to go by are the words printed in the books. Law makers may have had an intent, but that is not what is on the page.
Hysterical. Gonna be so sad to see this freak of nature go if the lawsuits end up that way :(
The Drive brought me here lol
Same...
Mee too
Look at the stupid wasteful BS, our bureaucrats induce with their drivel...clown isht
I bought a 10 meter boat from Uncle Sam at a government auction. The boat was built in Norway for the U.S. Navy.
Under Jones Act, to use this boat in "coastwise trade" (say.. a dive charter boat..), it must be U.S. built. There are exceptions though.. foreign-builds which are captured as war prize or seized/forfeit for smuggling or other lawbreaking... and then sold from U.S. federal custody at auction, qualify for these exceptions. My boat (like those..) was sold from Federal possession.. but mine LACKS THE CRIMINAL HISTORY necessary to qualify her for the exceptions which would make her eligible for coastwise trade.
Instead of smuggling crap into the U.S., my boat spent 35 years SERVING the U.S. Navy.. and Jones Act puts the ex-smuggler boat ahead of mine in priority. STUPID law!
They should be ashamed of themselves of what a waste of money to build and tear down
This is what you get when you make laws, and people find a way of (non)-complying.
PS: Judge Sharon Gleason waived the $360 million dollar fined assessed by US Customs, but declared the shipping company non-compliant with the Jones Act. The train operation ceased and the tracks were removed.
Just another company circumventing the law and never getting punished for it. What a useless judge.
@@AtGnat8 They followed the letter of the law. The law should have been written better. I promise you the statute is voluminous enough to have not allowed this. They simply needed to add a few words.
@@AtGnat8 There is no such thing as 'circumventing' a law. You are either in compliance or in violation.
@@shelbynamels973Apparently not because people find all kinds of ways to technically comply with laws while violating the spirit of the law.
@@koriko88 Perhaps. But all there is to go by are the words printed in the books.
Law makers may have had an intent, but that is not what is on the page.
Wow! Very cool!
Absurd laws
Absurd company.