Giantaxe

Well, well, some interesting "grandstanding" from the Lt. Governor according to that article:

"But state Sen. Michael Williams, a rival GOP candidate for governor, said Cagle only joined the fight after Senate Republicans agreed to block Delta's tax break.

“He didn’t have the gumption to say that until the Senate as a body, at least the Republican caucus, united and told him that we weren’t going to support it," Williams told Fox and Friends on Friday. “We had to send a message that we’re not going to support crony capitalism in Georgia."

So nothing to do with removing this NRA discount...

Giantaxe

mrken30

This a teacher that was armed.

https://www.gjsentinel.com/news/us/s...87bc68d1b.html

anotherlimey

Only the companies that aren't innovating.

If Walmart etc won't sell to 18-20 years olds, the customer just goes to an actual gun shop that stocks the same guns anyway.

zzrmark

Sending business to mom and pop stores is never a bad thing, spotty 18 year old oicks might grumble at having to pay a bit more though...

scrubbedexpat099

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dc koop

I see the Crackers in Georgia wasted little time in yanking the tax breaks from Delta.

Just shows the absolute power of the NRA

scrubbedexpat099

One scam that I for one am glad to see go away, even if for dubious reasons.

robin1234

It would be interesting to know what proportion of the NRA's income comes from foreign governments' budgets, criminal proceeds etc. It's hard to believe that these Russian officials who have life membership in the NRA actually paid out of their personal funds, rather than charging it to expenses..

https://www.npr.org/2018/03/01/59007...ign=&utm_term=

mrken30

Isn't this a bit like the US getting a taste of their own medicine? It's not like they didn't make large donations to Irish republicans (NORAID). It was an American senator, George Mitchell, that brokered the Good Friday agreement.

mrken30

I was thinking back to growing up in England. Was it bad that an 18 year old was not allowed to wear military uniform in public for fear of being targeted? We had to check our cars before and leaving the barracks. That I had to keep constant check on garbage cans. Eventually these were removed, so that became less of an issue.

Bob

It's interesting, because they were in the running for the Amazon gig, but if they're so willing to go back on their tax breaks if they disagree with a company stance, you can't see this helping them to bring Amazon in....which would be a far bigger kicker to the state.

Plenty of other states were courting Delta, with tax breaks to see if they would move, so that could also be interesting.

dc koop

Just shows how times have changed. In the far off days of the early 1960s we were proud to be wearing our uniforms in public. There were also occasional acts of kindness and appreciation. One elderly lady offered to buy me a cup of tea at Paddington railway station. She thought I was hard up.

dc koop

Perhaps from Putin's budget. it would be in his interests to see that America continues to be armed and violent

zzrmark

I think you missed the point. Military personnel still have pride in their uniforms and the vast majority of Brits have pride in their servicemen/women. The reason personnel were stopped from wearing uniform in public whilst off duty was to make it harder for the IRA to target them.
mrken30 didn't cover the full list of restrictions, such as no pleasure travel to Ireland whilst serving and recommendation not to visit when no longer enlisted.