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This makes me like the idea more. The Jones act needs to go, they only reason it's stuck around so long it's because most people don't know about it. Something that made it's flaws apparent would be great
>greenlands economy only exists to circumvent American cabotage regulations
When we bought the Virgin Islands (from Denmark), we exempted them from the Jones Act. So it can be done. Also, Greenland probably gets most shipping from Europe now, and that would not change even if the Jones Act were enacted there.
The Jones Act is something a lot of us on the Libertarian Right want gone or permanently softened, but apparently, the unions love it But it's also been helping hold back Mississippi, western Kentucky, and so forth, which could benefit from seaport and interstate expansion
If we buy Greenland and don’t exempt ourselves from the Jones Act we would continue the wreckage of our own economy. Also true if we don’t buy Greenland. Time to repeal the Jones Act.
Ironically not long ago they escaped a similar situation, primary shipping company to Greenland was a colonial relic and did everything from Denmark and prioritized danish jobs as much as Greenland, they changed that and moved board and logistics more toward the North Atlantic

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