In 1966, American psychologist Abraham Maslow opined that “it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.” Washington fits snugly into that paradigm, tending to view government regulation as the default solution to every challenge. The result is the creation of new problems instead of remedying old ones.
The Jones Act, an obscure but problematic maritime law, offers a compelling example. Enacted more than a century ago, the rule requires goods transported between U.S. ports to travel on ships that are American-built, American-owned, and American-crewed.
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