News Reedy Creek Improvement District and the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District

kong1802

kong1802

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WDWFanRay said:
I was born and raised in SoCal and spent 45 years there before moving to Central Florida. Make no mistake, a majority of Californians think Floridians (and most southerners) are backwards bumpkins. They have absolutely no respect for you and think of you as low class - poor relations. The mere fact that a California based company (which Disney is) feels that they have the right and power to tell another state what to do, should be proof enough. Imagine if the tables were turned and it Florida demanding that California change one of their liberal state laws. The laughter would be deafening. The fact that Florida is merely trying to protect itself from a California ideology attack is not an act of bigotry or racism, it’s an act of states rights and states values. One state (no matter how large it is) should be able to come into another state and impose their will. Those are basic founding father ideals.
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OMG, did you say California ideology!

Hunny, start the truck!
 
Sirwalterraleigh

Sirwalterraleigh

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disneyglimpses said:
Any project that falls under the prevue of RCID can be developed tax exempt. Things like roads, power plants, infrastructure, etc. This does not include theme parks or expansions, resorts, etc. Sometimes the lines are a bit blurred like how the Disney Springs parking facilities were developed tax exempt.

But by no stretch does losing this district result in an absurd financial burden for Disney.
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It’s biting the biggest hand that feeds you. That’s just a dumb move. They must have let bumpkins in the chamber in Tallahassee?

Rhetorical question
 
Casper Gutman

Casper Gutman

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donsullivan said:
(Treading dangerously political) There are a growing number of reports that the reason this was injected into the dialog this week was to distract attention away from the congressional redistricting plan DeSantis is trying to push through. It’s a touch on the controversial side and this creates a smoke-screen of noise to distract attention.
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Let's be more explicit... this is the plan in which DeSantis is specifically seeking to eliminate the districts of several African-American members of congress, correct?
 
CaptainAmerica

CaptainAmerica

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Nick_A said:
This really feels like it's setting itself up for Bob Iger to come in and save the day as the great compromiser. Something I'm sure he'd love to be able to claim for his own political ambitions.
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Does he still have political ambitions? I though general consensus was that he aged out of those two contract renewals ago.

Besides, he's a rich white capitalist Democrat. There ain't a big audience for that these days.
 
Casper Gutman

Casper Gutman

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CaptainAmerica said:
I don't like corporations having special benefits in the first place. Revocation of an unjust privilege is not, itself, unjust.
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If you don't like corporations having special benefits, there are A LOT of issues you need to address in America before you get to Reedy Creek... but I suspect you're less enthusiastic about addressing a lot of those issues.

And this is not a good faith reevaluation of corporate special benefits. It is an arbitrary and malicious use of government power to silence private speech - exactly the sort of thing Captain America would support, of course.
 
Sirwalterraleigh

Sirwalterraleigh

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CaptainAmerica said:
Does he still have political ambitions? I though general consensus was that he aged out of those two contract renewals ago.

Besides, he's a rich white capitalist Democrat. There ain't a big audience for that these days.
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Not to go off the rails (alert the NTSB)…

But it’s that “void” in the 1980’s “middle” developing as rhe political sweet Spot in the places that matter, isn’t it?
 
Zummi Gummi

Zummi Gummi

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CaptainAmerica said:
Does he still have political ambitions? I though general consensus was that he aged out of those two contract renewals ago.

Besides, he's a rich white capitalist Democrat. There ain't a big audience for that these days.
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I think if the opportunity presented itself, he would. He's not an unintelligent man, and he played this game far better than his successor currently is.
 
Casper Gutman

Casper Gutman

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Nick_A said:
This really feels like it's setting itself up for Bob Iger to come in and save the day as the great compromiser. Something I'm sure he'd love to be able to claim for his own political ambitions.
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Iger has taken pretty much the same stance on the current controversy as Disney and has publicly supported their actions.
 
CaptainAmerica

CaptainAmerica

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Nick_A said:
I think if the opportunity presented itself, he would. He's not an unintelligent man, and he played this game far better than his successor currently is.
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The opportunity did present itself, when Gavin Newsom needed to backfill Kamala Harris' Senate seat and Iger didn't make a play for it.
 
Disney Glimpses

Disney Glimpses

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Thankfully, the district isn't going anywhere, even if this bill succeeds. What the financial burden of the newly established district would be is unknown but I can't imagine it would be significant. The total budget for the district is $170 million. Taxes on those projects would be a fraction of that.
 

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