DeSantis and FL moving to hammer Disney

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Governor hogan should invite Disney to set up on Ocean City …

Exactly! Why not?

They could tie it to tourism of DC but have the resorts near the beach. Hogan is moderate Republican so Would probably still offer many tax breaks but without the 1950s social agenda. Would be a big win for jobs and tourism in and plus blow a DMV raspberry to de Santis’ blow hard, right wing antics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DeSantis looking to get rid of Disney's special tax district privileges in response to Disney for being 'woke'. The measure only has to pass the house, which is Republican, so it looks like there is a very high probability of passing.


https://www.wsj.com/articles/florida-senate-passes-bill-to-eliminate-disneys-special-tax-district-11650473902

Go woke and go broke is going to be DeSantis' presidential rallying cry.

My guess is it is more in retaliation for their completely hypocritical position. If they had this stance for years and were consistent with their their support for the gay community, my guess is this wouldn't be happening. However, they continue to do business with and even expand business into countries that have banned gay marriage and even condemn gays to death, so they are really just going after DeSantis, who in turn is fighting back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think DeSantis is gross - but I like him normalizing going after companies who don't align with your political view.

Dems spend way too much time catering to the corporate crowd. We can definitely benefit from what DeSantis is doing and won't be blamed for starting it.

WTF?

The first PP and the second PP's interaction reveal the cognitive dissonance among Democrats. This is what happens when you have no rational basis for your ideology, just "feelings".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think DeSantis is gross - but I like him normalizing going after companies who don't align with your political view.

Dems spend way too much time catering to the corporate crowd. We can definitely benefit from what DeSantis is doing and won't be blamed for starting it.

WTF?

The first PP and the second PP's interaction reveal the cognitive dissonance among Democrats. This is what happens when you have no rational basis for your ideology, just "feelings".

Actually…
What can be seen in this exchange is that many voting Republicans don’t understand that theirs is the party of big business (voting Republicans don’t understand much of anything anyway, so this tracks).

Further, they spend a lot of time complaining about “cancel culture;” what else could you call DeSantis’s move but “cancel culture”? It’s just a petty man trying to force someone to adopt his view, which tracks with his fascist viewpoint.

Third, you went on to project the problems of cognitive dissonance in Republicans onto Democrats. Nicely done, pp! You have no idea what your party is, but you are a fervent cult member.

[Anonymous]

Disney is a business. It is going to end up losing a lot of money because of its foray into politics. People are selling their stock and cancelling their trips!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DeSantis looking to get rid of Disney's special tax district privileges in response to Disney for being 'woke'. The measure only has to pass the house, which is Republican, so it looks like there is a very high probability of passing.


https://www.wsj.com/articles/florida-senate-passes-bill-to-eliminate-disneys-special-tax-district-11650473902

Go woke and go broke is going to be DeSantis' presidential rallying cry.

My guess is it is more in retaliation for their completely hypocritical position. If they had this stance for years and were consistent with their their support for the gay community, my guess is this wouldn't be happening. However, they continue to do business with and even expand business into countries that have banned gay marriage and even condemn gays to death, so they are really just going after DeSantis, who in turn is fighting back.

The matter is not complicated. DeSantis is not an idiot - you may not like him but he is not an idiot. DeSantis would not have gone after Disney if they just did the standard corporate dance about LGTBQIA2S+ and threw in some references to equity and stakeholder capitalism. Disney vowed to work towards repealing the Parental Rights in Education law, which has broad popular support among FL residents. If Disney wants to dabble in politics, well, DeSantis is showing them what that means.

[Anonymous]

And their Disney plus subscriptions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Disney is a business. It is going to end up losing a lot of money because of its foray into politics. People are selling their stock and cancelling their trips!

Who wants money from vile POSs?

[Anonymous]

If I owned any Disney stock, I would have sold it because I think the company will suffer a financial loss.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think DeSantis is gross - but I like him normalizing going after companies who don't align with your political view.

Dems spend way too much time catering to the corporate crowd. We can definitely benefit from what DeSantis is doing and won't be blamed for starting it.

WTF?

The first PP and the second PP's interaction reveal the cognitive dissonance among Democrats. This is what happens when you have no rational basis for your ideology, just "feelings".

oh, this is rich.

The R party has embraced conspiracy theorist, Q followers as political leaders; continue to hold on to the stop the steal rallies two years later, and still want their Insurrectionist in chief to run in 2024; exercise cancel culture on private businesses using their political clout, even as they blast private businesses for exercising their own cancel culture using their social clout.

But sure, it's the Dems who seem to be irrational ones .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Will the local taxpayers assume a burden if this goes down? Seems like all those FL statewide GOPers want to impose higher taxes on the middle class.

Yes, the burden is one billion dollars, around $2200 for each and every Orange and Osceola County resident.
Lots of discussion already here:
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1052413.page

Plus the surrounding localities would have to pick up the of cost of first responder services, utility infrastructure, etc. that Disney currently pays for.

The surrounding localities would receive the increased tax revenue that Disney would have to pay for losing the many tax breaks they currently receive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Will the local taxpayers assume a burden if this goes down? Seems like all those FL statewide GOPers want to impose higher taxes on the middle class.

Yes, the burden is one billion dollars, around $2200 for each and every Orange and Osceola County resident.
Lots of discussion already here:
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1052413.page

Plus the surrounding localities would have to pick up the of cost of first responder services, utility infrastructure, etc. that Disney currently pays for.

The surrounding localities would receive the increased tax revenue that Disney would have to pay for losing the many tax breaks they currently receive.

No Disney already pays taxes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DeSantis looking to get rid of Disney's special tax district privileges in response to Disney for being 'woke'. The measure only has to pass the house, which is Republican, so it looks like there is a very high probability of passing.


https://www.wsj.com/articles/florida-senate-passes-bill-to-eliminate-disneys-special-tax-district-11650473902

Go woke and go broke is going to be DeSantis' presidential rallying cry.

My guess is it is more in retaliation for their completely hypocritical position. If they had this stance for years and were consistent with their their support for the gay community, my guess is this wouldn't be happening. However, they continue to do business with and even expand business into countries that have banned gay marriage and even condemn gays to death, so they are really just going after DeSantis, who in turn is fighting back.

Yup..+100000

Disney quiet on China's absuses and keeps quiet to appease their CCP overlords in China, meanwhile takes a political stance when and where it thinks it is opportune in the US. It is hypocrisy. Either you stand for something or you don't. Disney needs to apply the same rhetoric to China.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DeSantis looking to get rid of Disney's special tax district privileges in response to Disney for being 'woke'. The measure only has to pass the house, which is Republican, so it looks like there is a very high probability of passing.


https://www.wsj.com/articles/florida-senate-passes-bill-to-eliminate-disneys-special-tax-district-11650473902

Go woke and go broke is going to be DeSantis' presidential rallying cry.

My guess is it is more in retaliation for their completely hypocritical position. If they had this stance for years and were consistent with their their support for the gay community, my guess is this wouldn't be happening. However, they continue to do business with and even expand business into countries that have banned gay marriage and even condemn gays to death, so they are really just going after DeSantis, who in turn is fighting back.

The matter is not complicated. DeSantis is not an idiot - you may not like him but he is not an idiot. DeSantis would not have gone after Disney if they just did the standard corporate dance about LGTBQIA2S+ and threw in some references to equity and stakeholder capitalism. Disney vowed to work towards repealing the Parental Rights in Education law, which has broad popular support among FL residents. If Disney wants to dabble in politics, well, DeSantis is showing them what that means.

Both of these x100. People who act do dumbfounded are either willfully ignorant or idiots.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think DeSantis is gross - but I like him normalizing going after companies who don't align with your political view.

Dems spend way too much time catering to the corporate crowd. We can definitely benefit from what DeSantis is doing and won't be blamed for starting it.

WTF?

The first PP and the second PP's interaction reveal the cognitive dissonance among Democrats. This is what happens when you have no rational basis for your ideology, just "feelings".

oh, this is rich.

The R party has embraced conspiracy theorist, Q followers as political leaders; continue to hold on to the stop the steal rallies two years later, and still want their Insurrectionist in chief to run in 2024; exercise cancel culture on private businesses using their political clout, even as they blast private businesses for exercising their own cancel culture using their social clout.

But sure, it's the Dems who seem to be irrational ones .

So you are making an equivalence of the two Democratic PPs with Republican conspiracy theorists and Q followers?