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Georgia House Passes Bill Stripping Delta Of A Multimillion Tax Break After It Slammed The State’s New Voting Restrictions

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"Georgia Republicans voted to strip Delta Air Lines of a jet fuel tax break worth tens of millions of dollars Wednesday after the company u-turned to unequivocally condemn the state’s widely-criticized voting restrictions, joining a growing list of executives who have criticized the new restrictions amid a debate over boycotting Georgia's biggest companies.

KEY FACTS
Republicans in Georgia’s House of Representatives voted to revoke Delta’s tax break, which is worth tens of millions of dollars a year.

The move was in response to CEO Ed Bastian condemning Georgia’s controversial voting bill, who described it as “unacceptable” and not matching “Delta's values."

A number of prominent Georgia-based companies—including Delta, Coca-Cola and Home Depot, which exert a powerful force on Georgia politics— condemned the law after pressure grew from activists to boycott them for not taking stronger stances against the law."

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For all their talk of cancel culture, here the Republicans use public policy to try and punish a company for expressing an opinion.
 
j brown's body said:
"Georgia Republicans voted to strip Delta Air Lines of a jet fuel tax break worth tens of millions of dollars Wednesday after the company u-turned to unequivocally condemn the state’s widely-criticized voting restrictions, joining a growing list of executives who have criticized the new restrictions amid a debate over boycotting Georgia's biggest companies.

KEY FACTS
Republicans in Georgia’s House of Representatives voted to revoke Delta’s tax break, which is worth tens of millions of dollars a year.

The move was in response to CEO Ed Bastian condemning Georgia’s controversial voting bill, who described it as “unacceptable” and not matching “Delta's values."

A number of prominent Georgia-based companies—including Delta, Coca-Cola and Home Depot, which exert a powerful force on Georgia politics— condemned the law after pressure grew from activists to boycott them for not taking stronger stances against the law."

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For all their talk of cancel culture, here the Republicans use public policy to try and punish a company for expressing an opinion.
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Rethuglicans are a bunch of cancel-culture-loving snowflakes.
 
Mr Person said:
GOP government stripping a company that was given tax breaks solely due to its dislike of the content of that company's political speech?

:unsure:
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You beat me to it. So Georgia Republicans stripped a tax break simply because they don't respect the free speech rights of the CEO.

The Republicans almost seem determined to make themselves irrelevant for centuries to come.
 
joko104 said:
Good. Why should Delta be given a tax break to finance Delta campaigning for Democrats?
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This makes no sense. Republicans won under the old rules 4 years ago. So clearly, they do not favor one side over the other.
 
dobieg said:
lolol

Love it!


Any company who gives in to the full of S woke crowd needs to feel a little pain.


OMG, they're making blacks show id's to vote like everyone else!!! Jim Crow! Jim Crow!
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You don't see the inherent problem of basing public policy on political punishments?

That's the sort of thing dictators do.
 
j brown's body said:
"Georgia Republicans voted to strip Delta Air Lines of a jet fuel tax break worth tens of millions of dollars Wednesday after the company u-turned to unequivocally condemn the state’s widely-criticized voting restrictions, joining a growing list of executives who have criticized the new restrictions amid a debate over boycotting Georgia's biggest companies.

KEY FACTS
Republicans in Georgia’s House of Representatives voted to revoke Delta’s tax break, which is worth tens of millions of dollars a year.

The move was in response to CEO Ed Bastian condemning Georgia’s controversial voting bill, who described it as “unacceptable” and not matching “Delta's values."

A number of prominent Georgia-based companies—including Delta, Coca-Cola and Home Depot, which exert a powerful force on Georgia politics— condemned the law after pressure grew from activists to boycott them for not taking stronger stances against the law."

Link

For all their talk of cancel culture, here the Republicans use public policy to try and punish a company for expressing an opinion.
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That is called "Corruption".
 
j brown's body said:
"Georgia Republicans voted to strip Delta Air Lines of a jet fuel tax break worth tens of millions of dollars Wednesday after the company u-turned to unequivocally condemn the state’s widely-criticized voting restrictions, joining a growing list of executives who have criticized the new restrictions amid a debate over boycotting Georgia's biggest companies.

KEY FACTS
Republicans in Georgia’s House of Representatives voted to revoke Delta’s tax break, which is worth tens of millions of dollars a year.

The move was in response to CEO Ed Bastian condemning Georgia’s controversial voting bill, who described it as “unacceptable” and not matching “Delta's values."

A number of prominent Georgia-based companies—including Delta, Coca-Cola and Home Depot, which exert a powerful force on Georgia politics— condemned the law after pressure grew from activists to boycott them for not taking stronger stances against the law."

Link

For all their talk of cancel culture, here the Republicans use public policy to try and punish a company for expressing an opinion.
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Thanks for that. I am adding Delta and Home Depot to my boycott list. Coca Cola does not matter, I don't don't drink their slop.
 
tres borrachos said:
You beat me to it. So Georgia Republicans stripped a tax break simply because they don't respect the free speech rights of the CEO.

The Republicans almost seem determined to make themselves irrelevant for centuries to come.
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That is 20 pounds of melodrama in a 5 pound bag, Tres.
 
NolanVoyd said:
The right is shrinking before our eyes.
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That's what you libruls said just before the GOP took over the House and state legislatures in 2010, and the Senate in 2014. The pendulum always swings when the democraps over reach.
 
Good. Why they have any say in anything is amazing. Delta can Geaux FO
 
Roadvirus said:
That is 20 pounds of melodrama in a 5 pound bag, Tres.
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she thinks the GOP should give tax breaks to people funding the democrats. Maybe the Democrats should be giving tax breaks to the pillow guy or Bushmaster rifles?
 
One term, dem GA Governor Roy Barnes spoke at my son's UGA graduation. The gist of his speech that he knew his 2001 fight to remove the confederate symbol from the state flag was political suicide but he did it for the economic good of the entire state. A new flag with confederate undertones was adopted after Barnes left office but the symbolism isn't as strong as the older confederate flag.

Turns out that Barnes was right. Racism is bad for the economy.
 
TurtleDude said:
she thinks the GOP should give tax breaks to people funding the democrats. Maybe the Democrats should be giving tax breaks to the pillow guy or Bushmaster rifles?
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That tax breaks were already given. By the Republican Majority.

They took them away because the CEO excerzized his first ammendment rights and spoke out against the Georgia Republican Party's voter supression laws.

That is text book corruption.
 
Napoleon said:
And here I thought progressives hated corporate tax breaks.
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Do they raise taxes in order to punish corporations for disagreeing with their power grab? No.
 
joko104 said:
Good. Why should Delta be given a tax break to finance Delta campaigning for Democrats?
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Too bad we can’t revoke Republican windfall tax breaks back to Reagan’s voodoo economics starting in 1983.
 
TurtleDude said:
she thinks the GOP should give tax breaks to people funding the democrats. Maybe the Democrats should be giving tax breaks to the pillow guy or Bushmaster rifles?
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Still not understanding this logic. How is what the Delta CEO is saying benefiting Democrats? Did you mean 'democracy?'
 
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