Disney Glimpses
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I believe the assessments are proportionate to services utilized.
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News Reedy Creek Improvement District and the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District
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peter11435
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You can also read the meeting minutes after the fact. Like this exciting meeting.
Disney Glimpses
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You are correct that this is unconstitutional. The problem is political retaliation against a politician or government power is not unconstitutional. And this is technically legislation against Reedy Creek, not TWDC. This is a good read about this nuance:
Tentative Thoughts on the Florida Repeal of Disney's Special Government District
The Florida Legislature has voted to repeal a statute that created a special government district (the Reedy Creek Improvement District)...
reason.com
PizzaPlanet
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But Universal does just fine with expansions and I would say their staffing is comparable to WDW. Same with DL in California. How would this be different from their situation?
Disney Glimpses
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Based on the interviews with DeSantis, it seems like they just want Disney to pay more in taxes and remove their ability to build a nuclear power plant. I don't think anyone (Republican or Democrat) wants to see the District actually dissolve.
peter11435
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Basically yes. Disney actually pays a separate tax directly to the respective county school district and another to the state school system. The taxes they pay to the counties largely goes towards funding services they don’t use.
Brian
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lazyboy97o
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Disney already pays taxes. Trying to get them to pay more taxes for political speech is still illegal retaliation and u equal treatment.
Who has said anything about nuclear power? Why does that matter?
peter11435
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Correct. Although the actual act of passing the law was done with intent to harm Disney. It doesn’t really matter how the law does that, they openly stated they were passing the law to harm Disney as a result of them executing a protected act.You are correct that this is unconstitutional. The problem is political retaliation against a politician or government power is not unconstitutional. And this is technically legislation against Reedy Creek, not TWDC. This is a good read about this nuance:
Tentative Thoughts on the Florida Repeal of Disney's Special Government District
The Florida Legislature has voted to repeal a statute that created a special government district (the Reedy Creek Improvement District)...
lazyboy97o
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Why can’t you give specifics? How are they harmed or put at a meaningful disadvantage? How is Disney having to manage sewers that they let local government manage a hindrance to them?
Disney Glimpses
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Honestly, we don't need to discuss the bill anymore and it's really not going to be a productive conversation for this fan base. The being said, much of the issue isn't around Disney opposing the bill. DeSantis and co. were set off when they essentially committed to using revenue dollars to overturn said legislation (revenue that is supplemented with tax exemptions by the state).
Disney Glimpses
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Uni has special taxing districts too anyways.
Disney Glimpses
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I'm not disagreeing with you at all. I'm saying that is what they want, not that it is reasonable. The nuclear power plant stuff has come up a ton. It's a talking point that they can built a nuclear power plant. DeSantis brought it up again last night on Tucker.
Disney Glimpses
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Hopefully a judge sees it that way.
Epcot-Rules
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You are correct. I should not have brought it up but I do live here.
GoofGoof
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I believe that’s how it works. So Disney pays local taxes to the counties and also pays local taxes to RCID. Because the taxes to RCID pay for a specific set of services not covered by the county the tax rate to the county is lower. The tax rate itself is built up as components of cost. So you have a budget for costs and each category has a rate that when added up becomes your total tax rate. A simplified example:
- Roads $10
- Emergency Response $20
- Utilities $10
- Schools $40
- General government costs $20
If RCID gets dissolved Disney would receive all the services for 1-3 from the county which would obviously raise the total cost for those categories for the county but Disney becomes just another taxpayer so the rate goes up across the board. So once the numbers are crunched it’s possible Disney pays more, pays less or pays about the same in taxes. It’s certain that every other taxpayer in Orange County pays more. That’s the guaranteed outcome but again, the people sponsoring this aren’t from Orange County and don’t care one bit about the people there. Remember the mayor of Orange County had a very public dispute with the governor over masks. Good way to get back at him.
lazyboy97o
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I didn’t realize he had been talking about it. I’m guessing that means the governor is also unaware that excluding some minor shares all of the nuclear power plants in Florida are privately owned. It’s bizarre how people are excited that the governor is going around saying how unfamiliar he is with the state. Politicians are declaring they don’t know what they are doing and it’s making them popular.
Serpico Jones
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Bob Chapek is not an elected official, he’s the CEO of a media conglomerate. Disagreeing with the bill is one thing but threatening to use the conglomerate’s power to stop the bill crosses a line. His statement was too forceful and frankly ridiculous.
What is the “Fort Wilderness Live Front Project”? Also curious about the 15 acre “Brown” property.
chrisvee
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why should Disney pay more in taxes?
why can’t Reedy Creek build a nuclear power plant? they own and operate utilities.