<html><head></head><body><div>On Mon, 2018-03-05 at 18:43 -0500, Solomon Peachy wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><pre>On Mon, Mar 05, 2018 at 05:57:37PM -0500, Greg Clifton via Ale wrote:
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In as much as the NRA discount had only ever been taken by either 14 or 16
passengers, this turned out to be some expensive virtue signaling on the
part of Delta! Originally sales tax exemption was granted to help them
recover from bankruptcy, once the crisis ended the tax was reinstated. The
real question is why were we considering giving the tax break to the
airlines now at this time of record profitability?
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There are arguably good reasons for reinstating that exemption. There
are also good reasons for not reinstating it. However, punishing an
entire industry "because one private organization decided to end a
completely irrelevant association with another private organization"
isn't one of them.
It reeks of pettiness and corruption, blatantly elevating a special
interest over that of an overwhelming majority of not only their nominal
voting constituents, but the business interests that have greased the
wheels of politicians since time immimorial.
Whatever the politics, the spice must flow, and generally pissing off
the greater business community is not a good path towards re-election.
</pre></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Heh, heh. Multiple pundits have noted the stunt reeks of election year politics. The governor's seat is up for grabs this year and the loudest mouth on the 'toss the tax credit out' side is running for governor. Multiple pundits are calling it a bad move. As I've noted, pretty much anytime GA makes it to NPR nationally, it's embarrassing. EVERY time GA makes it to TheReg, it's another example of clueless trying to appear capable.</div><div><br></div><div><sigh>Some days I don't why I'm still here. Then I remember about the fantastic food choices around Atlanta and the lack of 3 feet of snow every winter and I remember.</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><pre>
- Solomon
</pre></blockquote><div><span><pre><pre>-- <br></pre>James P. Kinney III
Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you
gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his
own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
- Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain
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