So essentially it gave a massive tax break to Disney and now the two Democratic leaning counties conveniently will have to take up the $1 billion debt?
What the hell?!
What the hell?!
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DeSantis signs bill dissolving Disney's private government after company criticized 'Don't Say Gay' law
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They are so long as business stays in line and supports the dictator, see Russia.
One of their news personalities, I forget his name, I think his wife posted pics of the whole family at Disney World just recently. Making him a huge hypocrite of course. IIRC, they had to disable comments on their post and he tried to wave it off as "only went for the kids". Yeah, sure.
Considering how people here have voted on measures that pertain to property tax increases, I have a hard time believing that they'll just swallow the speculated 20-25% property tax increase.
You can argue all you want about whether or not Disney should have had this right, but from that thread linked above-
This is going to HURT the people living in the two counties affected.
This is going to HURT the people living in the two counties affected.
i don't recall hearing anything from them before the bill was voted on. they could've started with saying something about it. they've got a kabillion dollars. they can reach people with a message if they want to. surely Mr. Disney could arrange a phone call with legislators in the state and strongly encourage them to not vote for this ridiculous bill?
whether or not it would've had any effect on the vote is a different question.
It's such a bunch of politcal bullshit. This won't happen lol, they're not about to put those tax liabilities on individuals in said counties.
And it's already expensive as fuck to live in Orlando with how low wages are
My kid did a project on this a year or two ago, and I think one aspect was that it could have its own fire department and other functions to respond quicker to emergencies.
Florida governments whole fucking grift is that they don't anything and thus don't have a lot of taxes. This will end that in central Florida.
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I almost hope he tries it and has to deal with consequences and blowback that will result. I know how much this will crush regular people though so I don't wish it on anyone.
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I almost hope he tries it and has to deal with consequences and blowback that will result. I know how much this will crush regular people though so I don't wish it on anyone.
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I get what this does as mostly a boon for Disney (lol) but say Desantis gets the boot, could a new gov reverse it? Would Disney even want it back?
Let 'em do it and reap the consequences of their actions. Would be nice to see that for a change…
Aside from the reason for this to occur, why are we giving megacorporations this kind of agency in the first place?
it all happened in less than a week. sure desantis postured about it earlier but it was pretty quick. plus how do you get people, specifically republicans, to care about something that doesn't affect them? hell, they might even enjoy it if it mainly affects blue areas. why would elected officials not do something that their red base loves? they eat this dumb shit up.
It's a short term boon for Disney, because they get some money and lose some debt, but for a company of their size, they'd probably prefer to have the special district. Needing to ask permission for things and rely on local governments to approve changes is going to gum up their works, and I think over the next ~50 years, they'd happily pay more if it means upping their efficiency and, thus, potential profits.
Do you think DeSantis really cares about democratic leaning counties?
Its a little hard to keep track of since there seems to be a ton of different takes on it, but i saw something yesterday or the day before that essentially this wouldn't probably go into effect until the election. Cleverly when DeSantis is probably planning to bail on the state and run for the presidency.
Another thing i saw said that if reversed, Disney could have some even better negotiating on what they'd get out of a new bill.
Reading a lot of these recent GOP news threads just drives the point that there's still plenty of people that either don't understand, or are straight up in denial, that this country is in thrall to a surging fascist movement and what exactly that means.
Yes I do lol. I think he realizes this is a zero sum loss for him long term.
he's just playing chicken and feeling himself way too much.
Living in Daytona, there's been a massive explosion in housing construction lately. And Deltona was already a popular destination for people who work in Orlando to buy a home in order to commute.
I know it's easy to write Desantis off as a short-sighted dumbass but part of me also wonders if part of this was very intended.
And adding to what I was saying, Volusia County is very much a Republican-leaning county
The dems are fucking lost and useless in 2022.
Florida is a dem Death Valley.
And nobody gives a shit in the USA what people elected in other states have to say about states they weren't elected in.
They are the largest private job creator and taxpayer in the state. If govt is holding up plans to expand the park and with it create more jobs and bring in more tourism money to the state, that will put pressure on politicians.
From the twitter thread...
Between now and whatever time "Reedy Creek goes away..." couldn't Disney go on a massive buying spree, racking up as much additional debt as they want, knowing it will all be passed on to the taxpayers?
Between now and whatever time "Reedy Creek goes away..." couldn't Disney go on a massive buying spree, racking up as much additional debt as they want, knowing it will all be passed on to the taxpayers?
I have bad feeling that they'll take a different lesson: to shut up about any cultural issues and play nice with the authoritarian party.
Whoever runs against DeShartis needs to print the tax hike on every political ad in the state. What a layup.
Conservative legislation in a nutshell, regardless of the country. Especially nowadays, where conservatism is mostly indistinguishable from fascism.
i'm not saying Disney could've necessarily stopped it. i'm saying it might've been worth the effort to try. you know, for human rights and all. afaik the company only spoke out about it after they were pressured to do so by employees after the passage of the bill. so to me it's clear they don't really care too much about the issue.
which makes it morbidly humorous that they're now being "punished" by Florida.
I don't think they were a megacorporation when the Reedy district was created 50 years ago
As a Floridian the last few weeks worth of bills being passed feels like 2016-2020 America. I'm glad you all in most of the other 49 states are enjoying your post-Trump life. It's demoralizing for us to see him successfully hurting liberal agenda. And he's about to become all of your problem in a few years.
His opponent in the upcoming election is Charlie Crist, who is already seemingly weaponizing the decision. I'd imagine he is going to hit on it repeatedly in the coming months since it's an easy economy+taxes layup that will move fence sitters/moderates.
The fact that this is only happening in retaliation to Disney's stance on "Don't Say Gay" is frankly insane.
We literally had a previous president who tried to hide the start of a pandemic outbreak and called it a hoax as tens of thousands of people were dying.
If it's dumb and cruel, it's happening.
You should have seen the shit Mike Huckabee was peddling as conservative propaganda but for kids, a few years back,. Had like a 9/11 episode and everything.
He forgot to add "And you will have to pay out of your ass in taxes as well!"
what? i'm talking about the dissolution of their special taxing district. the don't say gay bill was passed a month ago.