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Georgia's Lt Gov Threatens To Retaliate Against Delta Unless It Reverses Its Decision On The NRA
BI ^ | 2-26-2018 | Bob Bryan

Posted on 02/26/2018 12:59:41 PM PST by blam

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To: Salvavida
BOOM. We need to fully back this Governor. The first shot of economic warfare for the 2nd Amendment.

No we should not! We are supposed to be against govt telling, or dictating, what businesses should do. If Delta losses business because of their change in policy, then so be it. WE DON'T NEED GOVT MAKING BUSINESS DECISIONS, REGARDLESS OF WHAT SIDE OF THE FENCE THAT THEY MAY FALL.

81 posted on 02/26/2018 6:17:00 PM PST by Cyclone59 (Common sense can solve a lot of issues when applied properly)
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To: Cyclone59

Nope. It’s my Taxes he’s taking up for here. If Delta has their hand in my pocket they don’t get to spit in my face!


82 posted on 02/26/2018 6:24:34 PM PST by The Toll
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To: Spktyr

it is illegal it just was never prosecuted because the democrats condoled the justice department and key republicans Gave tacit approval for the persecution of the tea party.


83 posted on 02/26/2018 7:15:25 PM PST by PCPOET7
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To: PCPOET7

Your analogy is not consistant. Delta is wanting the Georgia government to pass special legeslation so it can avoid sales tax. It is wholely appropriate for the legislature to push back when the airline wants to get political. Elections have consequences...finally republicans are leveling the playing field.


84 posted on 02/27/2018 5:33:08 AM PST by ontap
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To: PCPOET7

By the way....what happened to the IRS??


85 posted on 02/27/2018 5:34:41 AM PST by ontap
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To: PCPOET7

did you like it when the IRS was used to go after the Tea party. I did not.


What the heck do you think Delta and the rest of the corporate fascists are doing to the NRA?


86 posted on 02/27/2018 5:35:33 AM PST by lodi90
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To: ontap

Your analogy is not consistant. Delta is wanting the Georgia government to pass special legeslation so it can avoid sales tax. It is wholely appropriate for the legislature to push back when the airline wants to get political. Elections have consequences...finally republicans are leveling the playing field.


Yep. This is how you win. Inflict pain and make it clear to these crony corporists that they will pay a heavy price for carrying the water of the Democratic Party.


87 posted on 02/27/2018 5:36:46 AM PST by lodi90
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To: lodi90

Absolutely...these companies must realize while they have every right to take a political stand there will be a price to pay. They took this action because the gun grabbers convinced them they would pay a price if they dodn’t....we are just leveling the field. We will find out which side really has the power to make them pay!!!


88 posted on 02/27/2018 5:48:57 AM PST by ontap
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To: ontap

These corporations naturally lean left. Their HR and legal departments are hot beds of leftists. Hopefully other large states like Texas will start fighting back against these thug leftist tactics


89 posted on 02/27/2018 5:59:33 AM PST by lodi90
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To: Cyclone59

Normally I would agree with you. But not when it comes to an inalienable right. I expect government to intervene and submarine businesses or movements that seek to seek to reduce liberty.


90 posted on 02/27/2018 8:05:03 AM PST by Salvavida (The Missouri citizen's militia sends its regards.)
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To: lodi90

they are not government agencies but private businesses and should be free to behave with in reason any way they want....I call it freedom of association. some businesses that don’t want to be participants of gay weddings. they should have every right not to provide services for this. the day that businesses and government are required to behave in the same way we will have arrived at fascism.... I want government to have the same rules for everyone and only treat businesses and people differently when a law is enacted not when the person who represents us sees something he does not like. of course it does not mean he cant vote in ways that are a detriment to a business type but it should not go after a individual business.

a good example of this unfair activity against businesses I hate is local cities going after Chick-fil-A. gay politicians and activists have used there positions in local government to go after this company. this is wrong and the same sort of thing that the governor is proposing


91 posted on 02/27/2018 8:34:26 AM PST by PCPOET7
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To: Salvavida
But not when it comes to an inalienable right.

your right to a discount airline ticket is non-existent. Also, so address the taxation issue - that is pure blackmail and govt overreach. I hate the very idea of TIF's - it is nothing more than welfare for businesses.

92 posted on 02/27/2018 6:31:29 PM PST by Cyclone59 (Common sense can solve a lot of issues when applied properly)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Yes. And that’s why I not only don’t want things to go any more socialist than they already are, I want to pull back the socialism we already have in place.

Also, since “what’s good for the goose is good for the gander” I hate to see any government entity threatening a business over its support (or lack thereof) for certain private entities. I can picture the governor of California or New York threatening some conservative business-owner because he refuses to support Planned Parenthood or the United way.

As much as I personally would like to see Delta Airlines’ bottom-line suffer, I don’t think it is proper for that suffering to come at the hands of the government.


93 posted on 02/28/2018 5:47:03 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: familyop

In what way did Delta Airlines act as government?


94 posted on 02/28/2018 5:48:23 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: WayneS

There are scads and scads of such “localization favors” going on all over the land.

This seems great until there’s a spat between interests.


95 posted on 02/28/2018 6:00:36 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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