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Initech

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Fri Mar 2, 2018, 03:06 PM Mar 2018

Number Of People Who Bought Tickets With Delta NRA Discount: 13

How many airline passengers does it take to kill a $40 million tax break for Delta Air Lines? 13.

The Georgia legislature removed a jet-fuel tax break from a larger tax package Thursday. Lawmakers were upset that Delta, which is headquartered in Atlanta, dropped the National Rifle Association from a discount-fare program in an effort to appear neutral on gun policy.

After the firestorm, Delta will review all its marketing programs to avoid those that might become political, CEO Ed Bastian announced Friday.

But the airline said only 13 passengers ever bought tickets with an NRA discount. That translates into each discount costing the airline about $3 million in tax breaks.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/03/02/delta-reviews-all-fare-discount-programs-after-nra-dispute-costs-georgia-tax-break/388587002/


But let's punish them anyways because, guns are more important than human life, apparently.
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Number Of People Who Bought Tickets With Delta NRA Discount: 13 (Original Post) Initech Mar 2018 OP
But they're gun people. Each of them is worth a hundred of the rest of us. Squinch Mar 2018 #1
A Hundred Is Obviously Understating, Squinch ProfessorGAC Mar 2018 #2

Squinch

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1. But they're gun people. Each of them is worth a hundred of the rest of us.
Fri Mar 2, 2018, 03:10 PM
Mar 2018

We know this because our legal system says that their hobby should be paid for with the lives of lots and lots of people.

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