Posted on 03/01/2018 2:40:42 PM PST by tkocur
Georgia lawmakers voted to nix a tax benefit for Atlanta-based Delta as part of a broader tax package approved Thursday, following the airline's decision to sever ties with the National Rifle Association.
The bill -- which includes a sweeping income tax cut -- cleared the state House on an overwhelming 135-24 vote, after being approved in the state Senate on a 44-10 vote. It now heads to the governor's desk.
The final version dropped an earlier amendment that would have renewed a jet fuel tax exemption worth $50 million that was taken off the books in 2015.
“Businesses have every legal right to make their own decisions, but the Republican majority in our state legislature also has every right to govern guided by our principles,” Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle, who very publicly threatened to pull the airline tax break earlier this week, said in a statement.
LT. GOV. CASEY CAGLE REACTS ON 'CAVUTO LIVE,' SATURDAY AT 10 AM ET Republicans threaten to kill tax legislation that benefits companies who cut ties with NRA after Florida mass shooting.
Republican Gov. Nathan Deal, serving his last year in office, said he plans to sign the tax package, though he initially pushed for the airline tax break.
Deal said he would still pursue a jet fuel tax exemption separately.
The rejection of the tax break for now, though, marked a swift rebuke from state lawmakers, who had been weighing the restoration of the benefit until this week. It was originally pitched as an “airline tax break,” rather than one that would only benefit Delta.
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Amazon, wherever it lands, is going to absolutely RAPE and PILLAGE whatever state, county, city, or town they settle in.
They didn’t pay a dime in taxes on the $5+ billion they made last year. Here’s to hoping that they take their liberal, hipster, techie employee’s somewhere else because Georgia believes in the Constitution.
You aren’t getting the point. There is nothing to fight for if we are just the other side of the same coin. Given a choice between voting for authoritarians who use the power of the state to punish those who don’t agree with them and authoritarians who use the power of the state to punish those who don’t agree with them... I choose neither. I am rapidly losing what little faith I still had in the GOP. And Trump is not helping by regularly demanding (via Twitter) that the Justice Department lock up his political enemies.
I understand your larger point, and you may well be right that if we use the power of government to stomp our political enemies we will become as bad as our political enemies.
But I see that as less risky than letting those who love the power of government to use it. Most of us have a dislike of an overwhelming powerful government, and want it cut back, but the other side has no such qualms about it's size and scope. They are literally wanting us to become Communists with the Government running everything.
You think these people will refrain from abusing the power of government? At least with people who distrust this idea of government power, there is some hope for restraint or scaling back, but with the opposition there is absolutely no hope of scaling it back.
Besides that point, I have long noticed that one of the best ways to convince people that the government needs to be reigned in and rendered more passive is for them to bear the brunt of governmental abuses.
Give the Liberals all the government stomping on them that we can manage, and they will quickly change their minds about letting the government run their lives. In fact, I see this as the only possible way to convince them that their ideas about government are wrong.
Yes, philosophically I am opposed to the idea of utilizing government power to achieve an end, but strategically and tactically, nothing else makes better sense.
#22. Re “some conservatives who work on the Walking Dead set”. I hope they are the producers and technicians because the “Walkers” remind me of Democrats - brain-dead, smelly, dressed like old hippies, and ravenous to “sup” freely on other people (like Al Sharpton at a free buffet).
I swear I saw Chucky Schumer, Transnanny Pelosi, Joy “IF I only had a brain, to eat” Behar, and little Dickless Durbin in the scene from last week’s episode.
What, giving 50 large in taxpayer funds to a corporation. There’s no constitutional authority to give a company any taxpayer money.
They can kiss their Amazon HQ chances goodbye. Bezos will never roll the dice on them.
New York is already making a huge play to pull them out.
“That will send a clear message. YOU WILL TOW OUR LINE... or we will use the power of the state to punish you.”
Either that or DON’T PUNISH MILLIONS OF PEOPLE for the action of one nutcase kid.
Delta’s statement in part “Delta’s decision reflects the airlines neutral status.....”
It’s neutral of the pull the discount when the Left is NOT screaming for revenge...maybe after things cool off from this shooting.
This move by Delta CLEARLY was political.
You know, WE ALL KNOW that the Obama administration used the Intel Agencies of the Federal Government against our candidate.
I’m not taking the high road to the labor camps. Delta can’t have my tax money AND spit in my face.
As a Georgian I am extremely grateful for this action.
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Georgia Rocks!
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Businesses like Delta should be driven out of business!
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“You think these people will refrain from abusing the power of government?”
That one sentence reminds me of what I often point out regarding Obama’s spying on Trump and all the other criminal actions of that administration.
In the end, the person to blame is not anyone associated with Obama, it is George W. Bush - specifically his “New Tone” where he was going to lead by example and not hold the crooks under Bill Clinton responsible for their actions.
So how did the Left read this ‘new tone’. Did they say ‘thank you, Mr. Bush’, and then wise up never to misbehave again?
Nope, they took it as PURE WEAKNESS and then double-downed under Obama, figuring the days of them having to play by the same rules as Republicans were over.
...and STILL no one under Obama has been held accountable, so they could be right. Time will tell.
“New York is already making a huge play to pull them out.”
Hopefully NY has the $5B to $10B necessary to pay the cost of them moving their operations to that God forsaken state. Otherwise it’s simply BS, nothing will happen - Georgia is a MUCH BETTER place to do business, fuel tax break or not.
It is important to let these corporations know that their is another side. Since they get all their news from the Liberal Monopoly media system, they were probably not aware that our side is much bigger and more powerful than the screaming babies throwing their tantrum.
The media has convinced the public that there side is sensible and the majority, and we need to push back against this idea publicly in every way we can manage.
As a Georgian I am extremely grateful for this action.
Kudos to George for doing the right thing!
I have reasoned myself around to the position that George Bush and ilk are simply a different face of the same "Uniparty" that we otherwise know as "the establishment".
George Bush never really wanted to advance our interests. He just parroted our ideology to the extent necessary to get and hold power. He was never about reigning in the power of government. He's just another member of the "in" crowd in the wealthy enclaves of the North East mostly.
I posted that statement for people that wouldn’t read the article. Delta are bald face liars
The vast majority id in the Christian Industry
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