Wednesday, Florida’s senate voted to abolish “special districts” created by Florida in 1967. The immediate impact of the impending abolition will fall on Disney and its company town, the “Reedy Creed Improvement District.” Read DeSantis Announces Legislature Will Consider Ending Disney’s ‘Special Tax and Governing Jurisdiction’ Status and BREAKING. Ron DeSantis Scores Major Win Over the Disney Groomers as Florida’s Legislature Abolishes Disney’s Special Tax Avoidance Scam.
Lawmakers in the Republican-controlled chamber backed the measure in a 23-16 vote. It now requires a vote in the state House before it can go to the desk of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, who called on the Legislature to support the bill during the special session this week.
The legislation would dismantle Disney’s special district on June 1, 2023. The special status, which was granted by a state law in 1967, allows Disney to self-govern by collecting taxes and providing emergency services. Disney controls about 25,000 acres in the Orlando area, and the district allows the company to build new structures and pay impact fees for such construction without the approval of a local planning commission.
The effort to eliminate Disney’s district, known as the Reedy Creek Improvement District, comes after DeSantis began targeting the corporation over its leaders’ criticism of legislation he recently signed that would prevent classroom discussion of gender identity and sexual orientation in kindergarten through the third grade.
In my view, there is no reason to permit this “improvement district” to exist. Subcontracting governance to private corporations was standard fare in the coal, timber, and agricultural industries in the first part of the previous century, and they disappeared for very good reasons. One of my grandfathers and one great-grandfather lived in company towns in the coalfields of southern West Virginia; it wasn’t a great existence. However, the reaction from RealConservatives™ reminded me of why I no longer describe myself as such.
Right here is the bottom line explanation for Disney’s predicament-
These whack, purple and pink haired goofballs think that EVERYONE really loves them for being so weird and strange, with bearded men in dresses, with pins, hooks, needles, and ball bearings stuck all over their tattooed faces, standing next to dykes with muscles bigger than Mr. America, in crew cuts and boots.
DEMANDING you give them respect, love, and special rights. And one of their “special rights” is the right to teach YOUR KIDS (in Kindergarten!!) their utterly strange behavior is NORMAL.
It ain’t normal in any sense of the word.
DeSantis is just saying what MOST Americans think about this weird subset of so-called humans. These people have some mental issues but they don’t have the right to make the rest of us say and believe they are normal.
Yes, MOST Americans. MOST! That’s what they really hate …..
Your whack ideas about how good fluorescent orange hair looks with that pin in your eyebrow and the ring in your nose makes you look so hot??
Delusional. That is your state of mind.
I’ve said it before — do as you will and be as strange and unusual as you want. Just STOP TRYING TO MAKE EVERYONE ELSE ADMIRE YOU.
All he’s doing is shifting Disney World’s tax burden onto the public. Disney is millions in debt to the state of Florida. All of that shifts onto the taxpayers if he does away with the special district. The average person’s taxes are going to see a $1000 increase if this plan goes through. This is all just dumb posturing to keep himself in the news leading up to his presidential campaign, and all of you morons are take the bait happily. Way to own the libs.
Democrats control Disney & all the other WOKE companies !!! incl the FAKE NEWS
Grow up.
DeSantis is da man!!!!
V.P for Trump soon !!!!!