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

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, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 03 2018, @03:42PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 03 2018, @03:42PM (#647096)

    I'm curious how much you're being paid to spew this nonsense.

    Those measures are incredibly popular with voters. They're all polling at over 70% and the universal background checks are polling at about 90%. The reason we don't get them is because the NRA has bought enough politicians that they won't dare do it. We also know that those things have worked in other countries.

    And, no near universal is not universal. In order for background checks to be really useful, it has to be a completely universal check. Anybody who wants to buy one has to be checked. If you're not checking, then there's far less utility in having a check in the first place.

    And no, these changes aren't meaningless, it's just needle dicks like you that are terrified of their own shadow that think so. In literally every country where they've enacted meaningful gun regulations there's been a reduction in gun violence. Even in the US there's a significant difference in murder rates between states with universal background checks and ones that don't.

    It's pretty much just the uninformed that don't accept that.

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