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Georgia Denies Delta Tax Break After Airline Cuts Ties With NRA

posted by martyb on Saturday March 03 2018, @03:11AM   Printer-friendly
from the under-the-gun dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Lawmakers in Georgia removed a $38 million tax exemption for jet fuel from tax-cut legislation on Thursday in a move that will punish Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines.

Republicans vowed to remove the exemption after the airline cut ties with the National Rifle Association (NRA).

Georgia's Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle (R), who is also running for governor, had threatened to kill any tax legislation that benefits Delta after the company's decision to end a discount program for NRA members.

[...] "I will kill any tax legislation that benefits @Delta unless the company changes its position and fully reinstates its relationship with @NRA," Angle tweeted earlier this week.

http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/376327-georgia-senate-passes-bill-that-effectively-punishes-delta-air-lines-for

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday March 03 2018, @05:55AM (2 children)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Saturday March 03 2018, @05:55AM (#646882) Journal

    In this case, the "supplier" owns the arms manufacturer.

    Not a relevant difference. They would still be targeted because they sell firearms and didn't make the appropriate mealy-mouthed obeisance to the cause.

    You've got to view them as all parts of the same.

    Same goes for the proposed solutions to the supposed firearm problem. For example, someone has proposed universal background checks (which incidentally we have aside possibly from some edge cases). But the US government is also the NSA which is in a great position to abuse the information contained in those lists. "You got to view them as all parts of the same." The solution obviously is to make sure the US government doesn't collect any sort of information be it firearm ownership, financial, health care, or phone/internet metadata on its citizens, right?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 03 2018, @08:15AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 03 2018, @08:15AM (#646931)

    I say, make the gun ownership lists public record, with details like physical address, whether or not the weapons are stored in a gun safe, or a real safe. You know, so that it is all on the up and up, and thieves will know which homes to avoid, because there are no guns in them.

    • (Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday March 03 2018, @08:52AM

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Saturday March 03 2018, @08:52AM (#646957) Journal
      Indeed, this is a great example of how this information has been abused in the past. Expediting the theft of firearms is definitely one of the things we need our governments for.