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Georgia House Votes To Strip Delta Of $35 Million Tax Credit For Flipping On Election Law Support
dailywire.com ^ | April 1, 2021 | Tim Pearce

Posted on 04/01/2021 12:12:02 PM PDT by lowbridge

The Georgia state House passed an amendment Wednesday that would strip Delta Air Lines of a multimillion-dollar tax break after the company blasted the state’s new election laws.

Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed into law last week a bill overhauling his state’s election procedures designed to increase security and address issues that surrounded the 2020 election. Delta initially supported key measures of the legislation after it was signed, then backtracked days later amid calls for boycotts pushed by left-wing publications.

Delta CEO Ed Bastian said the new election law “does not match Delta’s values.” Republicans in the state House, angered by Bastian’s sudden flip on the election overhaul, hit back at the company by voting to strip it of a jet fuel tax break worth over $35 million a year, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: airlines; delta; deltaairlines; edbastian; electionfraud; georgia; getwokegobroke; readywhenyouare; taxcredit; voterfraud
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To: LoveMyFreedom

Yeh, loving me some Georgia 😂


81 posted on 04/01/2021 12:45:13 PM PDT by snoringbear (,W,E.oGovernment is the Pimp, )
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To: semimojo
This isn't cancel culture, this is government explicitly trying to punish a private entity for their clearly legal speech.

That ship has sailed. Since we have blurred the lines between what is government and what is "private" industry, it's time we started punching back with Democrat tactics.

People who won't fight because of "muh principles" will be replaced by people who will fight in whatever manner the enemy can be hurt.

82 posted on 04/01/2021 12:46:00 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: lowbridge

LOL. Get woke. Go Broke


83 posted on 04/01/2021 12:46:08 PM PDT by tennmountainman ( Liberals Are Baby Killers.)
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To: Fido969
face with tears of joy face with tears of joy face with tears of joy face with tears of joy face with tears of joy

Get woke, go broke.

84 posted on 04/01/2021 12:46:41 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: semimojo
What about Delta's free speech rights? This isn't cancel culture, this is government explicitly trying to punish a private entity for their clearly legal speech.

Delta's ;primary job is to make money for its owners (stockholders) by safely take off and land planes with people on it.

85 posted on 04/01/2021 12:47:49 PM PDT by DCBryan1 (Delete FB, TWTR, GOOGL, AMZN, YHOO, Gmail/chrome. Use Gab, Brave + DDG, VPN, Freerepublic )
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To: semimojo

“Read the thread. FReepers are applauding the action because it hurts Delta.”

That doesn’t make it ‘punishment’. If my dad were giving me $10,000 a month and decided, for whatever reason, to stop giving me the money - he is NOT punishing me - and if I see it as punishment, that’s my problem not his...he has every right to stop the payments, for any reason.

People here are SICK of public money being handed to corporations, whether here or for stadiums, so that’s why we’re applauding.


86 posted on 04/01/2021 12:48:28 PM PDT by BobL
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To: mrmeyer
All is fair in love and war. Delta got political and picked a side, and this is a war.

Delta will just raise their prices and get less customers. Sucks to be them.

87 posted on 04/01/2021 12:48:39 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: lowbridge

Go after Major League Baseball too. The Braves moved from Boston to Milwaukee to Atlanta. They can move somewhere else if they don’t like it.


88 posted on 04/01/2021 12:48:44 PM PDT by wrcase
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To: lowbridge

I love it! Get woke. Go broke.


89 posted on 04/01/2021 12:49:04 PM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: ryderann
I sense that someone in the GA House is talking with Trump. This is a Trump move.

I suspect you are right. Trump fights like a Democrat and does not let people run over him just because of some principle about fighting fair.

We don't need to fight fair anymore. We need to fight dirty. We'll resume being fair when the other side decides to be fair.

90 posted on 04/01/2021 12:49:07 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: hanamizu
Again I ask, does Delta require me to show photo ID to board its planes? If so, does that also “not match Delta’s values?”

Yes, they are f**ing hypocrites.

91 posted on 04/01/2021 12:50:37 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: semimojo

They are not censoring Delta. They are removing a tax break because Delta has decided to become a political player. No tax breaks for you, Delta!


92 posted on 04/01/2021 12:50:49 PM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: semimojo

Delta can pack up and move to a city and State that’s in tune with their
values. Like Detroit, MI.


93 posted on 04/01/2021 12:52:09 PM PDT by tennmountainman ( Liberals Are Baby Killers.)
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To: semimojo

94 posted on 04/01/2021 12:52:39 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: lowbridge

Last time I flew on a Delta cattle car to Atlanta I had to show a photo ID.


95 posted on 04/01/2021 12:52:42 PM PDT by DaBroasta
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To: AndyJackson

I’ll bet Mr. Bastian wished he had never said that...I bet he wishes he had just stuck to flying....Fire Mr. Bastian, what on earth does he expect by pulling Delta into the political arena?!


96 posted on 04/01/2021 12:52:48 PM PDT by yoe (Follow the money on Covid or for Covid...)
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To: ealgeone
Has to go through the Senate and be signed by Kemp.

I think it will have a beneficial effect even if the Senate doesn't approve it.

It's awakened "woke" companies to the perils of poking their nose into politics instead of running their businesses.

Delta may dodge a bullet on this, but I daresay they will shut their f***ing mouths the next time around, and other companies will be given pause.

There needs to be penalties for businesses that attempt to intrude in politics. All the big tech companies need to be hammered to a pulp by the force of law.

97 posted on 04/01/2021 12:56:10 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: semimojo; hanamizu
Check your thong.

It might be cutting off the oxygen to your brain.

hanamizu wrote: Again I ask, does Delta require me to show photo ID to board its planes? If so, does that also “not match Delta’s values?”

98 posted on 04/01/2021 12:56:43 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: lowbridge

Bring these globalist corporations to heel.


99 posted on 04/01/2021 12:57:26 PM PDT by Mr. Blond
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To: semimojo

Screw Delta’s “free speech” rights.

Conservatives MUST NOT fight “fair”. Playing by the rules is why the left always wins.

Playing dirty is the only way to go.


100 posted on 04/01/2021 12:57:36 PM PDT by CrimsonTidegirl (“The fate of all mankind, I see, is in the hands of fools”-King Crimson)
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