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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, @03:38PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Saturday March 03 2018, @03:38PM (#647094) Journal

    They didn't want to spend money on birth control and pregnancy planning that their employees may or may not want to use.

    Then where's the flood of other companies to emulate this cost saving?

    By refusing to pay for the birth control devices, they were forcing the employees to find their own money and since Hobby Lobby pays minimum wage for so many of their positions, it meant that the employees couldn't have the pills without finding a nonprofit to pay.

    Or paying for the pills themselves. Minimum wage is not no wage and birth control is not that expensive.

    Shy of going around inspecting employees' medicine cabinets for birth control products, it's hard to get much controlling over the workers. Refuse to pay a decent wage and then refuse to pay for the birth control products that they were legally obligated to pay for.

    Except it turns out that they weren't legally obligate to pay for those birth control products.

    Unfortunately, the right has been allowed to stack the SCOTUS with unqualified rightwing nutjobs so it was allowed an exemption. But, it certainly wasn't a constitutional exemption. Corporations aren't people and as such, they have no constitutional rights. Just because the GOP was able to appoint a number of incompetent and corrupt judges, doesn't change that. I'll believe that a corporation is a person when Texas executes one. Until that time, they're not people.

    The First Amendment and its prohibition against religious prosecution exists contrary to your assertion that there wasn't a constitutional exemption.