Georgia House passes bill stripping Delta of tax
break after airline's CEO slammed new election
integrity law
Washington Examiner,
by
Andrew Mark Miller
Original Article
Posted By: Attila DiMedici,
4/1/2021 6:56:05 PM
Georgia lawmakers passed an amendment that would strip Delta Airlines of a tax break on jet fuel after the company publicly excoriated the state’s newly enacted election integrity law.
Republicans in the Georgia House of Representatives narrowly passed an amendment that would revoke the tax break, costing the Atlanta-based Delta tens of millions of dollars per year, according to Forbes.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
NeverForget 4/1/2021 6:59:25 PM (No. 742030)
Ideally, governments shouldn't be giving or revoking these kind of tax breaks. Yes, I know In living in a fantasy world.
20 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 4/1/2021 7:02:37 PM (No. 742031)
Hey, Delta -
BOOO-Yaaahhh!
49 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
marbles 4/1/2021 7:03:14 PM (No. 742033)
I like this. I really like this.
67 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
Ismeme 4/1/2021 7:03:20 PM (No. 742034)
HAHA....sometimes, there are consequences!!!
55 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
Phantomll 4/1/2021 7:03:44 PM (No. 742035)
Good for the GA House! Thank you!
56 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
anniebc 4/1/2021 7:05:40 PM (No. 742037)
Now, you're talking!
41 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 4/1/2021 7:09:10 PM (No. 742039)
Hey delta big boss better re-read Rules For Radicals.
45 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
billsv 4/1/2021 7:12:10 PM (No. 742043)
Go woke, go broke. Does he realize everyone of his employees has to show theirID and more to get hired. Some may have to undergo periodic drug screening. You need ID to get a boarding pass and to get through TSA. He should get fired
56 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 4/1/2021 7:12:40 PM (No. 742044)
Good! If you want to cozy-up to the leftist mob and get involved in political issues then it's going to cost you. On top of that Biden is itching to slam you with higher taxes.
41 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
vrb8m 4/1/2021 7:17:55 PM (No. 742049)
Get woke, go broke. Giddyup.
36 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
TJ54 4/1/2021 7:23:08 PM (No. 742051)
Well Delta is now on my “Do not fly list.” Why are all of these companies so terrified of Blacks when they should be terrified of us?
28 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
DVC 4/1/2021 7:27:35 PM (No. 742052)
If I was a member of the board of Delta, that asshat, mouth idiot of a CEO would be fired tomorrow.
43 people like this.
Didn't Delta screw up a few years ago and something similar happened?
15 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
Miceal 4/1/2021 7:31:09 PM (No. 742055)
Excellent...!
11 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
MissGrits 4/1/2021 7:31:18 PM (No. 742056)
I love this, but where was the Georgia legislature during the election? They could’ve easily overturned the Georgia election just by following state legislature rules.
31 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
bogeegolf 4/1/2021 7:35:42 PM (No. 742062)
This is great if it actually happens but I haven’t seen any fitting consequences to any of these pukes in a long time. And BTW Delta we still will not fly with you. Also no Coke. Water
15 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 4/1/2021 7:36:32 PM (No. 742064)
Attention all you leftists, cancel can work both ways. Right?
18 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
stablemoney 4/1/2021 7:38:50 PM (No. 742067)
The CEO had his picture posted on Yahoo all day with their snark under it. What an idiot to open his mouth and have his picture distributed across the country by the left. The CEO has chosen sides, and he can live with it.
16 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
earlybird 4/1/2021 7:51:26 PM (No. 742075)
Love it when our elected representatives take the bull by the horns and protect us. Stand up for We The People.
14 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
Cousair 4/1/2021 8:00:22 PM (No. 742079)
C E Wollman, would have run him off the property by sundown and revolt his lifetime boarding pass.
5 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
BarryNo 4/1/2021 8:05:02 PM (No. 742080)
And you thought you only had to worry about the Democrats getting nasty? Florida may follow suit. What will you do then, Delta? Cry to Biden?
12 people like this.
Reply 22 - Posted by:
coldoc 4/1/2021 8:11:37 PM (No. 742083)
The lesson here for corporate wannabes-leave the social justice warrioring for the smelly tattooed ponytailed antifascist scum. Like the loser living in your basement.
17 people like this.
Reply 23 - Posted by:
dwa 4/1/2021 8:12:20 PM (No. 742084)
I doubt this will pass in to law. It has to pass in the Senate and then Kemp has to sign it. The GA Senate has shown a complete lack of backbone on tough issues and Kemp is a worm. So don't celebrate yet, two big hurdles.
7 people like this.
Reply 24 - Posted by:
Nimby 4/1/2021 8:12:41 PM (No. 742085)
I thought that the state senate had already adjourned? So this is meaningless? Can anyone from GA chime in?
2 people like this.
Reply 25 - Posted by:
leonardo 4/1/2021 8:16:04 PM (No. 742087)
Company publicly excoriates new election integrity LAW?
So, Delta DOESN'T want election integrity?
HIT them where it HURTS.
Then wait for the "walk back."
14 people like this.
Reply 26 - Posted by:
cThree 4/1/2021 8:40:22 PM (No. 742092)
Who are those pusillanimous chicken poop lawmakers who "are reportedly less interested in punishing Delta"? No wonder GA went belly up.
The Delta CEO was very clear. The new GA law is "unacceptable." CEO Ed Bastian should be more than ready to put his money where his big mouth is, which here means giving up the tax break. Compare it to returning a campaign donation from an offensive donor.
Delta can decide here to go from there, literally. They probably shouldn't fly anywhere that has similar, "unacceptable" laws.
4 people like this.
Reply 27 - Posted by:
red1066 4/1/2021 8:42:50 PM (No. 742095)
Atlanta's airport which is probably the busiest airport in the world, is a hub for Delta. So maybe Delta's idiot company snowflakes may want to mind their own business and leave voting laws to the people who make them.
10 people like this.
Reply 28 - Posted by:
hershey 4/1/2021 9:05:29 PM (No. 742103)
Wokeness has consequences doesn't it Delta??? Yuk yuk yuk...
5 people like this.
Reply 29 - Posted by:
Venturer 4/1/2021 9:13:11 PM (No. 742114)
That Tens of Millions can now go into the Georgia treasury.
4 people like this.
Reply 30 - Posted by:
Twinkle93 4/1/2021 9:14:50 PM (No. 742115)
Delta Airlines show adopt Michael Jordan's business conduct plan - stay out of politics.
4 people like this.
Reply 31 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 4/1/2021 9:22:40 PM (No. 742121)
Get woke, go broke. Delta is rumored to be a pig farm anyway.
3 people like this.
Reply 32 - Posted by:
Califedup 4/1/2021 9:35:55 PM (No. 742133)
The Georgia State Senate did not pass the bill. The tax breaks for Delta remain in place unless the Senate votes on passing the bill which they won't. Headlines are misleading.
1 person likes this.
Reply 33 - Posted by:
kono 4/1/2021 10:04:07 PM (No. 742146)
I'm not a fan of political blackmail like this; but if the Dems are going to call that play over and over (e.g. MLB moving the all-star game because of the election integrity law, NBA moving their all-star game from Charlotte over North Carolina's defense-of-marriage act several years ago), at some point they need to be given a taste of their own medicine.
6 people like this.
Reply 34 - Posted by:
SALady 4/1/2021 11:09:28 PM (No. 742186)
Delta should show them, and move to one of those lie-beral paradise blue states.
Oh wait, they would be taxed out of existence in those blue states, so it's time to start eating crow Delta!!!
2 people like this.
Reply 35 - Posted by:
Historybuff 4/1/2021 11:21:19 PM (No. 742195)
Do I still have to show picture id to get on a Delta flight?
1 person likes this.
Reply 36 - Posted by:
mifla 4/2/2021 5:06:32 AM (No. 742326)
Not sure how this will play out, but nice to see conservatives refuse (for once) to curl up into the fetal position when accused of racism.
1 person likes this.
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