Don’t just waive Jones Act — repeal it

Until the recent hurricane-driven humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico, most Americans who had even heard of the Jones Act knew very little about its adverse effects on oceangoing trade.
Most of us, after all, have few reasons in our daily lives to pay attention to the often-arcane laws of the seas. To the extent that we had known about the nearly century-old law, it was in the form of regulatory anecdotes. It does seem crazy, for instance, that the law makes it so expensive to ship goods from Haw