02 April 2021

Voting Lefts - update

One may feel that Coke and Delta and American Airlines, and perhaps more, are finally doing the right thing. Although, in fact, all they're doing is back-pedaling some self-inflicted bad PR. Will they take steps? It didn't work out well last time.

Delta tried such a stunt before, when it went against NRA
Republican lawmakers in Georgia made good on a threat to eliminate a proposed tax break for Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines, after the carrier declined to reverse a decision to cut ties with the National Rifle Association.
And given that Republican legislatures, and Republican state courts, are knee-capping Democratic governors (and may be some Republican ones too?) who are trying to keep Covid under control, ya think they might be just a tad eager to do the same with voting rights? Some hundreds of bills, and a few now law, across 47 states (at last report) to keep all those Left Wing Snowflakes from electing anyone. Everybody knows only Republican Autocrats are worthy of running governments. Vlad told them so.

[update]
Are you surprised that Georgia is trying the same thing, yet again.
Wednesday's action by the Georgia House, on the final day of the state's legislative session, sought to revoke the company's jet-fuel tax break and came amid an intense faceoff between Delta's CEO Ed Bastian and Georgia's Republican political leadership.
Back then
Georgia lawmakers have targeted the multimillion-dollar tax break on jet fuel before as political retribution. In 2018, state lawmakers killed the tax cut after Delta ended a discount for members of the National Rifle Association -- earning the ire of the assembly's Republicans.
Several months later, then-Gov. Nathan Deal suspended collecting the tax.

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