Georgia jet fuel tax halted, months after Delta, NRA fight

Georgia's governor Monday made good on his vow to restore a tax cut on jet fuel sales that was previously killed by state GOP lawmakers irate with Delta Air Lines for ending a discount for members of the National Rifle Association. Republican Nathan Deal issued an executive order ending collection of the state's 4% sales tax on jet fuel beginning Aug 1. Earlier this year, lieutenant governor Casey Cagle effectively killed a proposed sales tax exemption on jet fuel to punish Delta for ending a discount program for NRA members in the wake of the deadly school shootings in Parkland, Florida, in February. The proposed exemption was included in a larger tax bill but was stripped by Cagle and the state Senate, capping what Deal referred to an "unbecoming squabble." <br/>