[ale] SB 315 Major Update (Important!)

[Damon L. Chesser]

On 03/05/2018 06:43 PM, Solomon Peachy via Ale wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2018 at 05:57:37PM -0500, Greg Clifton via Ale wrote:
>> 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?
> 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.
>
>   - Solomon

Agreed.
>
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