My Smile donations go to NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund. If you prefer GOA you can choose Gun Owners Foundation. I'm not sure if they are the same thing but GOA recommends this on Smile.
A portion of my purchases from smile.amazon.com still go to the NRA as far as I know. I've not been notified otherwise.
I don't have the ability to examine the demographics here, but I would imagine the number of teenagers renting cars is pretty low compared to adults, which would make this a less than stellar business decision. There must be some big money behind this well scripted crusade somewhere.
Having wondered the same thing now believe these companies are gambling on generating more new business from greater numbers opposed to the now vilified NRA, than any loss suffered by offending NRA members. I don't think anyone believes NRA membership numbers will suffer due to loss of a fringe benefit utilized by some.
My Smile donations go to NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund. If you prefer GOA you can choose Gun Owners Foundation. I'm not sure if they are the same thing but GOA recommends this on Smile.
I was mistaken about mine. Mine goes to the Second Amendment Foundation. For some reason I was thinking it was the NRA. I just changed it to NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund.
Delta airlines: suck it nra members....no more discounts
State of georgia: Suck it delta....no more $40million jet fuel subsidies from our taxpayers.
I hope GA follows thru with this.
11alive.com | No discount, no tax break: Former Ga. senator upset over Delta's NRA decision
No way in hell the state of Georgia would ever realistically consider that. And given that this apparently wasn't an issue for the former Senator until now, I find it especially interesting that he want's to penalize a private enterprise based on it's relationship with another private enterprise. Think about that for a moment. A state attempting to tell a business who the can and can't do business with, that isn't based on the collective values and morals of the people they represent?
There is no entitlement to tax breaks. I get what you are saying 100%, but government should not be involved on tax breaks, incentives, etc either Govt is involved all over the place influencing behavior with the power of the purse and taxes... and between private entities, etc... mortgage tax break to incent people to buy houses, just one small example and there are many more out there.
i got my nra credit card because i was sick of paying interest to bank of america because they dont like gun companies, as soon as i pay off my nra card, it's getting canceled and ill tell them why!
yesterday my antivirus expired (kaspersky) and i went to best buy to buy a new one, and i told the salesman dont even point to norton!
Note sure if this will bear fruit, but we need more like it: Corporate Combat: Georgia Conservatives Aim to Derail Delta Airlines State Subsidy After Airline Cuts NRA Ties
No, we don't. We need govt out of the incentive business. That's a long held conservative principle. And when finding "conservatives" that are ok with it, it should even be more distasteful when those incentives are used to blackmail a business, not over a governmental policy, but over it's relationship with another business.
Is this really simply a straightforward matter of a business and its dealings with another private business? This looks more to me like a business publicly taking a very public stance against private citizens who are associated with (members of) the NRA, and in a manner that in the current climate of gun-hate is actually a huge middle finger to all gun owners, NRA members or not, many thousands of whom are Georgia residents.
Does anyon believe that Delta has any concern whatsoever with extending or not extending discounts to NRA members as much as it has concerns about making the business calculus (in this instance) that it wants to be in the "right" side of what it believes to be politically expedient at this particular time? It had no problem getting business from NRA members for years, but now is perfectly happy making the reasoned cost-benefit analysis to both throw NRA members under the bus while also indirectly insulting the rest of us. Politics being what is is, how can anyone be surprised when politicians now want to pander to a constituent group (NRA members and gun owners writ large) with anti-Delta red meat?
I totally agree that government shouldn't be in the incentive business, and in my perfect world, it wouldn't be. But it obviously is at at every level of government, and I don't see that changing. So, having benefited greatly from the government incentive business, Delta should not be surprised to face the possibility that it ends up getting the short end of the political incentive stick on this, and I frankly will shed nary a tear if it does.