Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h/t Breitbart; In the wake of Delta Airlines criticism of Georgia’s voter integrity laws, the Georgia House of Representatives is stripping Delta of state fuel tax exemptions, to help Delta resist the temptation to use fossil fuel.
Georgia House threatens Delta tax break after CEO slammed new voting restrictions
By CNN Newsource
Published 9:14 amGeorgia’s Republican-controlled House on Wednesday voted to revoke a major tax break for Delta Air Lines as punishment for its CEO’s public criticism of the state’s controversial new lawclamping down on ballot access.
The state Senate did not take up the measure before lawmakers adjourned for the year, rendering it dead for this year — but the threat underscores the potential political backlash corporations could face for opposing efforts to restrict voting.
Voting rights activists are lobbying major companies to take a stand against elections bills under consideration in key political battlegrounds, where Republicans are moving to erect new barriers to voting after record turnout in 2020 helped Democrats win the White House and the majority in the US Senate.
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Read more: https://keyt.com/politics/2021/04/01/georgia-house-threatens-delta-tax-break-after-ceo-slammed-new-voting-restrictions/
Delta will no doubt welcome this effort to repeal their fossil fuel tax breaks. Reducing CO2 emissions accords with Delta’s public commitment to a low carbon future;
Delta’s ambitious carbon neutrality plan balances immediate actions and long-term investments on path to zero-impact aviation
Staff Writer Mar 4, 2021 8:45am
Delta Air Lines’ audacious commitment to carbon neutrality from March 2020 onward is coming to fruition with swift impact through immediate actions coupled with long-term investments to combat climate change.
“Connecting the world and protecting our environment for future generations cannot be mutually exclusive,” said Delta CEO Ed Bastian. “Travelers should not have to choose between seeing the world and saving the world. We must continue to take immediate actions today and can’t wait for future solutions to become a reality. While there are many paths to carbon neutrality, Delta chose to make an impact today and invest in a future where aviation itself becomes cleaner for the world around us.”
In the short term, Delta intends to achieve carbon neutrality by directly reducing emissions through fleet and operational efficiencies and addressing remaining emissions through carbon offset project investments that maintain, protect and expand forests. See Delta’s sustainability glossary for definitions of sustainability terms and details about Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions.
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Read more: https://news.delta.com/deltas-ambitious-carbon-neutrality-plan-balances-immediate-actions-and-long-term-investments-path
The Georgia House of Representatives desire to repeal Delta’s fuel tax exemption also accords with Greenpeace’s demand for an end to fossil fuel subsidies. The Greenpeace definition of a fossil fuel subsidy includes fossil fuel tax breaks, like the exemption Delta receives.
Imagine if more states followed Georgia’s lead? Delta would soon have an irrefutable claim to be America’s climate leader of the skies, showing their incontrovertible commitment to reducing carbon emissions by paying more fuel tax per gallon than any other major airline.
Of course, other airlines would not want to be left behind. Delta’s competitors would quickly follow Delta’s courageous climate leadership, by demanding an end to their own fossil fuel tax exemptions. They would demand the right to demonstrate their solidarity with Delta’s high cost commitment to a low carbon future.
All too often, WUWT sadly has to report on the disagreements and conflicts which arise between participants in the climate debate, so I’m sure you will all appreciate the warm fuzzy feeling I get from writing about a win / win situation like this, in which everyone gets what they say they want.
If there weren’t such stupid consequences, it would be funny how leftwing media continually harp on about it’s supporter base has a higher IQ, yet millions are disenfranchised unless they can vote without having to give identification, turn up to a polling station, apply for a postal vote or without someone doing everything for them.
but the threat underscores the potential political backlash corporations could face for opposing efforts to
restrictimprove and expand voting.Voting rights activists are lobbying major companies to take a stand against elections bills under consideration in key political battlegrounds, where Republicans are moving to
erect new barriers toimprove voting integrity after recordturnoutballot stuffing due to last minute relaxing of voting procedures in 2020 helped Democrats win the White House and the majority in the US SenateFixed it. See how much clearer it becomes when it’s not overburdened with lies?
You’re such a stinker!
Georgia’s voter identification law will not restrict legal voting, but will reduce the ease of fraudulent absentee voting.
Yes, in effect, by Coke, Delta, MLB, and Biden protesting common measures that improve democratic integrity and facilitate eligible voters, they are colluding to enable and commit fraud. Not that they CAIR (Catastrophic Athropogenic Immigration Reform). So, hold them jointly and separately accountable. Impeach Biden.
Zhou Must Go!
LCW:
Yes. There is a big difference between ‘absentee ballots” and “mail-in ballots”.
The second variety is where most of the fraud potential arises.
As to DELTA: its CEO makes a great case for using Southwest Airlines or some other carrier.
Similarly, I’ve stopped watching the NFL (BLM), NBA (BLM & grovelling to China) and now MLB
due to their political stances. Why don’t corporations “stick to their knitting” by just offering a good product at a good price? And leave politics to the (mostly awful) politicians!
btw: I’m also trying to limit what I buy from China after reading about their treatment of Uighurs.
“Why don’t corporations “stick to their knitting” by just offering a good product at a good price? And leave politics to the (mostly awful) politicians!”
Because they have “diversity managers” and crap like that, who goad and push from within. If they don’t say the right (meaning left) thing, they’ll get cancelled.
/snip
Says it all, really.
Except of course tax breaks technically aren’t subsidies, they’re tax breaks. Two totally different things
Are they reported differently to the IRS?
yes.
On a purely technical level you are completely correct. However, as they (tax breaks targeted at businesses and subsidies to businesses) basically accomplish the same goal, they tend to get lumped together and referred to as “subsidies” by most laymen.
Why? Co2 is not a GHG and does not cause climate change.
https://notrickszone.com/2021/04/01/physicists-lab-experiment-shows-a-co2-increase-from-0-04-to-100-leads-to-no-observable-warming/
Does Delta still require the showing of an ID to board one of their planes? Racists!
There’s not much you can do in the United States without an ID.
Claiming requiring a voter ID suppresses the legal vote is just plain wrong.
What requiring voter ID does do is suppress illegal voting.
The Democrats are planning on registering all the illegal aliens they are currently allowing into the country.
All States need to take extra steps to make sure illegal aliens are not allowed to vote in American elections. We need to throw a monkey wrench into the Democrat schemes.
So Delta is going to atone for their CO2 sins by buying indulgences in the form of carbon offsets. Oh well, indulgences worked for people in medieval church, I suppose it will work in the Church of Climate Change too. What matters is that you are allowed to keep on sinning.
“Oh well, indulgences worked for people in medieval church”
You would need to define “worked”.
I hope this leads to a host of bill writing all across the country. It’s brilliant and there are a lot of (millions) of tax exemptions and incentive payments to work on all across the country. I hope it’s a model to slap the virtue signaling hard, especially those that don’t even read the law that they are positioning on..
One small problem with this article. The purpose of the law is not to restrict or suppress or prevent voting. Its purpose is to improve the integrity of the voting system.
This feels good until one realizes how much mischief can be done by the proponents of “cancel culture” if legislation to punish a company for its political views isn’t categorically banned. My guess is that it will be, on first amendment grounds. But I’m not a lawyer, I just read a lot of law.
That CEO needs to resign or be fired.
Delicious! Like taking candy from a brat.