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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Glocktogo" data-source="post: 3089314" data-attributes="member: 1132">I'm of two minds on this one. First, I don't think we should use taxes to penalize or favor certain people or entities, ever. Taxes should ALWAYS be fair and equitable upon everyone. Now if you can tell me the last time that was actually the case, I'd sure love to hear it? We punish all sorts of people and sub-groups with taxes, on every level of government, every day for as long as I can remember. We create favoritism within tax codes equally as often.In this particular case, you're arguing that a business should get a tax break not offered to every business in the state. For sure the reason they're not going to get the break is because they took a benefit away from a group of people for political purposes. So how do you defend their retaining a benefit specifically for political purposes? Every component of this issue is political, so I see no good way out of it.Delta made a choice that comes with consequences. They're not being treated unfairly by not getting a tax break not offered to other businesses in the state. If anything, they're being treated MORE fairly in comparison to other businesses in Georgia, rather than being treated with favoritism. So I fail to see what the issue is? <img src="/images/smilies/anyone.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":anyone:" title="Anyone    :anyone:" data-shortname=":anyone:" /></blockquote>