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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.
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(Score: 4, Informative) by khallow on Saturday March 03 2018, @08:35AM
Shouldn't it fix something concrete first? My view is that if you don't have a reason for the restriction, then it is an unjustified theft of freedom. For example, recent mass shootings have been the principle driver for these sorts of regulations, but there's little that they would have done in those shootings. The Douglas school shooter shouldn't have passed existing background checks. The problem wasn't in his case too loose gun licensing, but rather a lot of "not my job" bureaucratic buck-passing. The Las Vegas shooter would likely have passed even harsh licensing requirements.
Second, gun control is notorious for power grabbing. For example, the Washington DC city council passed a law [wikipedia.org] in 1975 that prohibited most people from owning handguns or from storing their guns in a ready-to-use state. Laws like that are what created the present activist NRA in the first place (they were taken over [soylentnews.org] by "libertarians" in 1977 which changed the focus of their lobbying activities to the present approach). The Washington DC law went beyond any legitimate concerns about loose firearm ownership, undermining self-defense.
Such excessive laws are precisely why the NRA opposes even modest changes. The future of gun control is not sensible regulation, but banning as much firearm ownership and usage as possible. Sorry, there's a lot of people who just aren't on board with that.