While truck drivers might loose out, I dont think it follows that they need to be compensated. People loose out from various changes in government policy the whole time. If you raise taxes, you obviously dont compensate the people now paying more because that would exactly cancel the gains.
What you want, is to make it gradual enough so that if many trucker jobs go they do so at a pace that people can adjsut to (eg fewer new hires and a few early retirements rather than mass redundanvies). I suspcect repealing the Jones act would have a gradual impact, as buying the ships, crewing them and advancing the port infrastructure all sounds like a thing that happens over a decade at least.
While truck drivers might loose out, I dont think it follows that they need to be compensated. People loose out from various changes in government policy the whole time. If you raise taxes, you obviously dont compensate the people now paying more because that would exactly cancel the gains.
What you want, is to make it gradual enough so that if many trucker jobs go they do so at a pace that people can adjsut to (eg fewer new hires and a few early retirements rather than mass redundanvies). I suspcect repealing the Jones act would have a gradual impact, as buying the ships, crewing them and advancing the port infrastructure all sounds like a thing that happens over a decade at least.