Mick
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No, it's about pushing a political ideology on a corporation.
No, it's about pushing a political ideology on a corporation.
Actually I think it was more tit for tat
Delta: we strongly disagree with the NRA and support more gun control
GA Reps: hey dumbasses you live in a red pro gun state stay the hell in your lane
And in the end they will both be smiling in public, locked in arms, while singing kumbaya
No, it's about Delta pushing a political agenda. If you're going to push a political ideology, then you shouldn't get tax breaks.
I don't think Delta will ever offer the NRA incentive that probably didn't add to their bottom line to begin with. What are they getting from the NRA. Any kind of loyalty from NRA members because they offered a discount to travel to the Rally, will give way to the which airline is cheapest. A boycott delta would also be of no consequence when the very nature is to try to travel cheap.
There will be no reconciliation between Delta and the NRA but Delta and Georgia will work it out.
Actually I think it was more tit for tat
Delta: we strongly disagree with the NRA and support more gun control
GA Reps: hey dumbasses you live in a red pro gun state stay the hell in your lane
And in the end they will both be smiling in public, locked in arms, while singing kumbaya
Yup. Like many have been saying here, this is blowing up on the leftists.Delta stepped in it on this one as they seem to be the highest profile company being discussed among all the others that ended the discount. Delta is in the business of flying people from point A to point B. That's the only business they need to be in. If they choose to end a discount, they would be better served with a little passage of time and ending said discount with the absence of a press release that says, " hey, look, see what side we're on?!" I don't see this necessarily as "what" they did, but more in "how" they did it. Now they may have likely taken a $50M hit to their bottom line. That affects profit sharing to 80,000 employees as well. Politics is not smart business if you're in a business other than politics.
The closing paragraph of this article pretty much hits the nail on the head:
"Still, in my view, the most telling aspect of the lieutenant governors post is the way it affirms the charge that corporate tax cuts arent an economic policy, so much as a form of legal bribery: If Casey Cagle believes that the primary beneficiary of the jet-fuel tax cut isnt Delta but rather, the people of Georgia why would he inflict harm on his own constituents just because hes offended by the airlines public-relations strategy? And if he doesnt believe the people of Georgia stand to benefit from giving Delta a $40 million tax cut, then why did he ever support that giveaway in the first place?"
GOP: No Tax Cut for Delta Until It Gives Discounts to NRA
Delta is pushing a political agenda by returning to a neutral position?
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I find it fascinating that those who want to see the swamp drained are also OK with politicians using tax payers dollars to leverage & extort a partisan position from a private corporation that wants to be neutral.
Give "our" people a break on prices or we'll withhold money through tax incentives. LOL, I hope Delta packs up their sht and moves.
They were neutral before. They offered discounts to all kinds of orginizations. When they pulled their discounts to NRA members that had nothing to do with Parkland, they chose to side with the liberal left. If they pulled their discounts to say the NAACP do you think they'd be siding with the white supremacists?
