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[bpiper]

$85K for a lawyer ? You can be an attractions mechanic fixing the broken Tower of Terror , Coaster and with OT earn $75-80K per year, high school diploma , and get accepted to WDW Engineering trade program for several years before earning the bigger paycheck.

You missed my point on how using averages is misleading. You can still have extremes.

Also, you don't understand how accountants/lawyers/doctor pay works....

They and a lot of other high paying professions pay like crap (for the profession, but we wouldn't call it a crap amount) when they get out of college (although wall street seems to be the exception). They use and abuse them because the person has to get practical experience somewhere and has to suck it up. Once they have that experience they either get promoted to the big salaries or they leave and go out on their own and get the big bucks.

My BIL is a lawyer. He joined a big NYC firm. Became one of those cubical farm lawyers, representing shipping companies being sued for damaged shipments. Got abused, left to another firm, again a cubical farm this time representing hospitals in NYC being sued for malpractice. A step up in quality, better cubical and pay, but still abused. Him and a coworker left and started their own firm doing wage law. Making BIG $$$$$ now. He purchased his neighbor's condo in cash, demolished the wall in between and made a huge condo out of both.

 

[Riviera Rita]

With Disney now directly the subject of these legal attacks (and no longer RCID), it makes me wonder if they can now unleash first amendment/retaliatory type arguments. Tweets like this make it pretty easy. They can't help themselves.

That tweet is a disgrace, it gives away the agenda of DeSantis and his cronies.

 

[kong1802]

Got our family matching T's ordered:

 

[Riviera Rita]

He's lacing up his white leather knee high boots as we speak.

He didn't like the Green MnM wearing them because she looked good when she wore them.

 

[Prince-1]

That tweet is a disgrace, it gives away the agenda of DeSantis and his cronies.

DeSantis's agenda is to become the next president. Everything he is doing is being done to achieve that goal.

 

[BaconPancakes]

 

[Parker in NYC]

That tweet is a disgrace, it gives away the agenda of DeSantis and his cronies.

Was it ever in doubt?

 

[Riviera Rita]

She would likely go to Disneyland before WDW anyway.

With Mummy and Daddy having Disneyland as the next stop on their Worldwide Privacy Tour

 

[Smiley/OCD]

Yea but does outside counsel get complimentary passes for them and family to the theme parks?

Nope, first in line for popcorn buckets…

 

[ToTBellHop]

Lilibet probably will live longer if she never goes to Walt Disney World, so I’m a hard ‘no’ on giving her Genie+ for life.

I understand Christine McCarthy decreased serving sizes at WDW specifically so Lilibet will stay healthy and live well into her 90s.

Now it all makes sense.

 

[peter11435]

States provide and remove privileges, benefits and incentives from companies because they agree/disagree with them all the time. Government, after all, picks winners and losers, and Disney receiving a benefit is a de facto punishment against its competitors. This benefit/privilege may have been wise when the land was undeveloped, but today it's a lot harder to justify.

I previously tried to provide some examples of CA removing benefits and privileges from companies/people they disagree with, but I seemed to have run into a word filter and the post was filtered.

Regardless, Florida is perfectly within its right to elect representatives and leaders that will remove privileges from companies when the voters don't like what they are doing. It's no different from government creating a benefit for solar panel makers or punishing an oil company. They did not try to place Disney below any other company, only remove some privileges they no longer want to offer a company that goes against the values of their voters.

You should start back at page 1. You have a few things wrong here.

 

[peter11435]

The guy who decided to fight with Disney was re-elected in a landslide. He has a voter mandate to enact his agenda, including fighting with Disney.

Well when you spend months lying to your voters they may not fully understand what they are voting for.

 

[BaconPancakes]

Well when you spend months lying to your voters they may not fully understand what they are voting for.

There's a reason they are destroying the dept of education.

 

[Smiley/OCD]

Nah. Football no. Old school soap opera yeah. Stand by for the next episode as the now brilliant move unravels and plot twist. It is entertaining.

Like sands through the hourglass…

 

[Prince-1]

You should start back at page 1. You have a few things wrong here.

Hey he’s new here to these parts. Takes time to catch up.

 

[Riviera Rita]

Explains so much.

 

[MagicHappens1971]

With Disney now directly the subject of these legal attacks (and no longer RCID), it makes me wonder if they can now unleash first amendment/retaliatory type arguments. Tweets like this make it pretty easy. They can't help themselves.

I’m just so frustrated by their rhetoric. Disney didn’t circumvent any taxpayers. The dissolution/take over of RCID did circumvent the rights of one tax payer, Disney.

Their base doesn’t read well so they have to use buzz words and rhetoric anyway

 

[MisterPenguin]

and Disney receiving a benefit is a de facto punishment against its competitors

That benefit comes from paying twice the taxes because the county taxes -- that WDW does indeed pay -- does not come back to them in services and infrastructure provided by the county. WDW pays a second tax on top of that to the RCID in order to get the services and infrastructure they need.

All started because when WDW began, the counties were mostly swamps with a few tiny towns. So, WDW had to pay for their own 'county services.'

Now, is paying extra money to get the services you want fair? Ask Universal. They paid the county extra to expand the roads to their new Epic Universe site.

The ignoramuses in the executive and legislative branch didn't even know this when they decided to seek revenge on a corporate's First Amendment rights being exercised. They touted that WDW had special tax privileges implying that Disney gets a tax break, which it doesn't.

If they understood exactly what it was they were attacking -- you know, doing due diligence that lawmakers should do -- they wouldn't have initially voted to simply disband the RCID. They had no clue as to the catastrophe that would create with regard to RCID's bonds and county taxes. And so, they had to pivot to taking over the RCID instead of banishing it.

This is making their very own constituents angry that they didn't do away with RCID (because they still believe the lie it gives Disney big tax breaks).

And if they did it right the first time, it wouldn't have given WDW and RCID time to make these contracts cementing in WDW's control of... THE. LAND. THEY. OWN.

 

[kong1802]

Serious legal question.

Since a Chapter 163 Development Agreement is based on a Florida statute, can't the Florida state legislature undo any agreement created by RCID by passing an ex post facto law?

For example, something along the lines of:

"Notwithstanding s. 163.3202, any independent special district established by a special act prior to the date of ratification of the Florida Constitution on November 5, 1968, shall not enter into a developer's agreement until reestablished, re-ratified, or otherwise reconstituted by a special act or general law after November 5, 27 1968."

Although U.S. Constitution (Article 1, Section 10, clause 1) prohibits states from passing ex post facto laws, the Supreme Court ruled in Calder v. Bull that this only applies to criminal matters.

They are in a corner and will try everything.

 

[danlb_2000]

That tweet is a disgrace, it gives away the agenda of DeSantis and his cronies.

"give away" implies that they were trying to hide it.