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http://www.rawstory.com/2016/04/tennessee-gop-leader-threatens-tax-hike-on-companies-that-oppose-anti-trans-bathroom-bill/
Tennessee House Majority Leader Gerald McCormick (R) on Tuesday threatened to financially punish companies which opposed a bathroom bill aimed at transgender people by stripping their tax breaks.
Although McCormick agreed that the House did the right thing by shelving the bill on Monday, he defended the intent of the bill, which would have forced students at public schools and colleges to use bathrooms corresponding with the gender on their birth certificate, according to the Times Free Press.
During a floor debate on Tuesday, McCormick blasted business leaders for focusing on the bathroom bill instead of a full-fledged gang war going on in Chattanooga.
This weekend we had four people shot in Chattanooga, McCormick said. But our Chamber of Commerce is writing us letters about the bathroom bill. Now the reason theyre not all fired up about the city of Chattanoogas handling of the gang problem is because the city of Chattanooga sends them money and funds their budget. And we dont. Guess what. We aint gonna.
All these companies who tried to blackmail us over this thing, when they come for their corporate welfare checks (economic incentives) next year, we need to have a list out and keep an eye on it, the majority leader added.
CincyDem
(6,363 posts)Damn if we'll let anyone blackmail us over being bigots and bible-ists.
Sheesh - such a$$-hats.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Would the honorable gentleman please do us all the courtesy of getting bent?
JustAnotherGen
(31,828 posts)And they move to Hunterdon County in NJ.
LakeVermilion
(1,042 posts)by choosing low tax states are now getting a taste of American bigotry. Its the law of unintended consequences.
spanone
(135,844 posts)Initech
(100,080 posts)2naSalit
(86,646 posts)I wish there were a test for potential candidates to see if they even know what the Constitution and the limited extent of the powers of the office they intend to hold are and if they have a clue about what anything outside their selected favorite parts of the bible are.
Any guesses as to why they so desperately want the bible to be their state book anymore?
RussBLib
(9,019 posts)Today's GOP is off the deep end crazy.
0rganism
(23,957 posts)once Trump or Cruz is their prez nominee, business interests at large will dump the GOP faster than you can say "Mexico will pay for the wall". the Chattanooga CoC is just a little bit ahead of the curve.