Literally.
This isn’t just about Trumpists looting the Treasury; it’s about Puerto Ricans going hungry because food did not arrive. Puerto Ricans dying because medicine did not arrive.
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On the surface, the Jones Act shouldn’t make that much difference. It only covers shipments between US ports which have to be carried by US built, US owned and flagged ships. The problem is that it was designed to protect a US merchant marine that no longer exists.
According to a recent study, there are some 171 privately-owned US flagged ships today. Just 93 of them are Jones Act-eligible.
It creates a big problem on all US coasts, including the Great Lakes where so much trade has to cross the Ambassador Bridge owned by a Robber (bridge) Baron family.
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It’s important to note that one man is making a giant positive contribution to PR, Jose Andres.
I met him recently at the DC “Food Fight” and he’s awesome. Low key, honest, takes no shit and can put on his camera face faster than most. Now, if he ran for president…
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Frack.
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The GOP tax bill, which Trump celebrated last week, treats Puerto Rico as a foreign country, imposing a 12.5 percent tax on the income that companies there receive from intellectual property — a big hit to its crucial pharmaceutical and medical-device sector. Rather than give Puerto Rico special tax treatment, which it urgently needs, Trump and his congressional allies gave employers a powerful reason to move jobs off the island.
What’s Spanish for no-win-situation?
Puerto Rico’s (Democratic) governor, Ricardo Rossello, made a dumb mistake in October when, appealing to Trump’s vanity, he praised the president’s hurricane response. That gave Trump cover to do nothing for Puerto Rico.
But if he’d criticized Trump, Trump would have had a twitsnit and put Rossello on his permanent grudge list.
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Thread:
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https://twitter.com/caribeindigena/status/950751544651153410
https://twitter.com/caribeindigena/status/950752503343321088
https://twitter.com/caribeindigena/status/950753664150507521
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Shock doctrine.
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