I didn't say anything about taxes but okay. Clearly Disney is enjoying a benefit from retaining control or they wouldn't be pulling these legal shenanigans to keep that control. If I wanted to engage in arguments with people who post in bad faith, I'd just go back to Reddit.
They're "pulling these legal shenanigans" in defense of a state takeover seeking to punish Disney from exercising their First Amendment rights.
They are not being punished for exercising their first amendment rights. Both red states and blue states confer and take away privileges to/from companies they like or don't like. Happens all the time but you don't recognize that in this case because you either love Disney that much and/or agree with their far-left politics.
This is exactly what I was thinking. There is already one organization that has been caught with their pants down due to the discovery process that was initiated because they couldn’t' stop running their mouth.
The Governor and his cronies have explicitly stated they planned to remove RCID as retaliation for what Disney said. They quite literally are being punished for exercising their first amendment rights. Dissolving RCID is a disadvantage to the taxpayers of Florida, more specifically Osceola/Orange county.
As I said earlier. Please start at page 1. I would also recommend reading Married to the Mouse. There’s a lot about the district and how and why it exists and operates that you need to learn.
They absolutely are being punished for exercising their first amendment rights. Everyone involved at the state level has made that abundantly clear.
He is digging a grave for himself. Why has no one stopped him from continually going on record saying that he and his administration intentionally and basically lodged a hostile takeover of a private company.
As stated, this is right now a public records request. Any of us could make such a request. Beyond that, the attorney general can open an investigation and seek court orders and warrants for non-public documents if there is probable cause that they contain evidence of a crime. That would likely result in litigation over whether anything is privileged but that’s par the course.
When you make claims about Disney's 'far left politics' I think we can dismiss your comments as that term is meant as an insult by you and is actually not even factual.
What happened to just giving DeSantis something he could call a win and it would end all of this?
I have a feeling he's falling into a trap but we'll see.
Okay, if you don't understand why Disney wanted to and volunteered to be taxed above and beyond the norm then it is you who is not arguing in good faith. Read up on the district, what it does and how it works or for that matter the other 800 plus Florida special districts that preform similar functions that include additional taxes for the people in those districts.
The state can't use its authority to enact laws to punish people or organizations for exercising their first amendment rights. It was DeSantis who said he was using the power of the state to retaliate for Disney's opposition to a particular law. Corporations can be favored or disfavored for any number of valid reasons, but the government in this country cannot use its power to punish political speech.
The arguments in defense of the state are:
He’s also reportedly good at eating pudding with 3 fingers.
The existing portion of Universal Orlando Resort is taxed extra at their request. They’ve recently asked for their new property to be taxed more. This isn’t actually hard to figure out.
