Florida lawmakers vote to end Disney’s
tax privilege, self-governing status
New York Post,
by
Callie Patteson
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
4/20/2022 2:25:01 PM
Florida’s Republican-led Senate approved a bill on Wednesday looking to eliminate Disney’s special tax district that has allowed the company to self-govern its land. The Florida House is also expected to vote in favor of the legislation after Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis announced on Tuesday that lawmakers will be “considering termination of all special districts that were announced in Florida prior to 1968 — and that includes the Reedy Creek Improvement District.”Special tax district allows Walt Disney Co. wide-ranging autonomy,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
stablemoney 4/20/2022 2:26:38 PM (No. 1133537)
Give them the boot. Disney should have to pay their fair share. That is the progressive refrain.
50 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
Lazyman 4/20/2022 2:30:28 PM (No. 1133543)
Go woke go broke. Hopefully they move to Georgia where the Dims have taken over the ballot boxes.
26 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
hershey 4/20/2022 2:42:07 PM (No. 1133557)
Yea, poke the giant and get crapped on ....I just LOVE it!!!!
33 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
Krause 4/20/2022 2:42:53 PM (No. 1133560)
Stupid CEO. He should have just minded his own business, literally.
41 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
TJ54 4/20/2022 2:44:55 PM (No. 1133563)
Abigail Disney - may your fair share! Munch, munch!
23 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
thomthomp 4/20/2022 2:48:31 PM (No. 1133569)
Sometimes karma comes kwikly.
27 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
thefield 4/20/2022 2:56:42 PM (No. 1133581)
The other businesses that are losing their exemption must be really happy also.
16 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
Quigley 4/20/2022 3:11:26 PM (No. 1133591)
That was quick. DIS had no time to think about their sins. Anyway they’re so woke they must want to pay their fair share.
19 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
jhpeters2 4/20/2022 3:13:32 PM (No. 1133594)
The Disney Board of Directors need to eliminate the ceo. Woke virtue signalling is not a thought out business strategy. Look at where it got many companies NOT named Disney.
18 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
TurtleDove 4/20/2022 3:28:34 PM (No. 1133600)
My initial concern was if Disney decides to up & leave FL, that will be a lot of people out of jobs. Then I remembered how they replaced 100s of American employees vs H1B Visa immigrants ...oh well, they might have to go home. Buh-bye!
23 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
Rand Al'Thor 4/20/2022 3:36:19 PM (No. 1133604)
In light of the inevitable decrease in stock value, will Disney shareholders have legal recourse against the Disney board members for their ill-thought-out support of pedophilia and child grooming? Pass the popcorn.
24 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
snakeoil 4/20/2022 3:42:39 PM (No. 1133607)
If Disney leaves Florida they can put Disney World up for sale. It would make a great Trump World.
27 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
laurenc 4/20/2022 3:42:57 PM (No. 1133608)
How does Disney Leave Florida? Leave the theme parks, which generate hundreds of millions of dollars a year? Leave the 39 square miles of land they own? Their only play is to fire the CEO and beg DeSantis not to sign the bill.
21 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
Dreadnought 4/20/2022 3:56:11 PM (No. 1133612)
Disney will simply buy off the county governments.
7 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
Zeek Wolfe 4/20/2022 4:27:32 PM (No. 1133626)
The Disney company is mainly concerned with making money and crotch issues. They are mutually inclusive as the corporate board will soon learn courtesy of the state of Florida. You wanna promote sex wedge issues, you gotta pay the price.
5 people like this.
Yippeeee! You go Gov and pubbie Senate.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 4/20/2022 5:04:47 PM (No. 1133655)
#4 - The current CEO (Chapek) wanted to keep Disney out of politics. It was the previous one (Iger) who jumped feet first into the crotch issues on behalf of a few employees who started making a fuss.
5 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
formerNYer 4/20/2022 5:34:11 PM (No. 1133681)
Disneyland and Disneyworld are the cash cow that keeps all the other crap they own in business; ABC is #4 in National networks? ESPN's ratings have been declining every year. Lucasfilms? Star Wars is done, Dreamworks? Didn't they produce the colossal bomb, west side story? Some of the dis films have done terribly lately, Mulan? Another bomb. They'll not move, and they'll be selling off pieces in the next 10 years.
6 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
smokincol 4/20/2022 6:47:00 PM (No. 1133724)
I have no sentiments of support for the Disney organization because to abhor and ignore the American people in the way the Disney org has done is indefensible - there should never be a time in the history of any country where the minority sector of the country should dominate the majority, never! - I hope the Disney stock tanks to an irrecoverable level
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