There's only one thing the local state can do for Disney and that is to improve the infrustructure around Disney - be it transport, roads, public transport, security etc
I live in London. The state provides a world class metro system. Hell most small cities around Europe have a metro system. Where is Orlando's metro system? The roads are utterly attrocious. I4 at rush hour is a disgrace, yet nothing is done about it.
One Lynx bus system to Disney from the outskirts is utterly ghastly
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There is no local community around Orlando parks - unlike Anaheim, that Disney feel the need to keep things sweet for the Orlando state by giving away ultra cheap annual passes. All it does it deter away high paying international and American tourists outside Florida from visiting - due to the huge crowds locals infest.
May I remind you the United States is not the UK?
I-4 is currently under construction - being widen to accommodate the increased traffic between Tampa and Orlando. Outside of major cities like NYC, LA, Chicago, you won't find transit systems like London or Europe. Americans love their cars. Hell, in LA, they practically live in them as LA County is pretty big. I know, I was born and raised there. I'm older than DLR.
We're a bit larger than Great Britain and this highway system was constructed in the 1950s so we could drive our
cars from coast to coast.
Walt Disney purchased 27,000 acres (roughly 47 square miles) in Central Florida in the 1960s to avoid the problems of Disneyland in Anaheim. The Anaheim of the mid 1950s was
vastly different than the Anaheim today. Walt bought 180 acres of orange groves, built DLR and then watched tacky hotels pop up around his park. The City kinda grew up around DLR. He wanted to avoid that. Oh, and there
ARE local communities around the parks. I've driven through them. Or have you missed the comments from members on this forum about watching the evening fireworks from their yards? There's an entire residential area behind MK, with homes, apartments, shopping centers, gyms, etc. Just a few minutes drive away. Or the homes under construction along 429 as you drive to WDW's Western gate. Apartments are under construction at Flamingo Crossing to house CP CMs. Plans will include a shopping center, if I remember.
And just to show how
little you really know about TWDC, that hotel that was to be built at DLR near the original Disneyland Hotel? It isn't being built, one major reason is the Anaheim City Council which doesn't have as friendly a relationship with TWDC as the State of Florida. Just ask those who run the DLR runDisney races about that relationship. Reedy Creek Improvement District exists because the Florida Legislature allowed it to be created. Oh, and those millage rates on the property taxes of residents in Orange County include SFWMD, which supports WDW.
I suggest you stop with your nonsense.