DeSantis and FL moving to hammer Disney
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Anonymous
No. Disney was paying for all this development itself, it wasn't subsidized. And of course all the new jobs would have been taxed, too. |
Anonymous
Agree - or at least establishing that as a possibility if De Santis continues with his reckless culture war games … HEATHER COX RICHARDSON MAY 19, 2023 Citing “changing business conditions,” Disney leadership today canceled plans to build an office complex near Orlando, Florida. The construction was estimated to cost about $1 billion, and the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity projected it would bring to Florida more than 2,000 jobs with an average salary of $120,000. In his email to employees, Disney’s theme park and consumer products chair Josh D’Amaro made it clear that even more was on the line. He noted that Disney has planned more than $17 billion of construction in Florida, bringing about 13,000 jobs, over the next ten years but suggested that, too, was being reexamined. “I hope we’re able to,” he said. |
Anonymous
| Hip |
Anonymous
| Not a Disney fan, but DeSantis needs to revoke ALL the special districts if he's messing with Disney |
Anonymous
You think he's going to do that to The Villages? Get out of here |
Anonymous
There are 2,000 of them. |
Anonymous
| With the new immigration law in Florida, I expect construction costs are going to skyrocket very soon. Not a bad decision from Disney, and it makes DeSantis look like a dope. |
Anonymous
They already have…if you can find anyone to do the work. Roofing contractors are scheduling for 2 years out. Sorry if you have a leaky roof.. |
Anonymous
hurricane season is coming. The last big one there had construction companies bringing in workers from out of state. Will Desantis' new law apply to out of state workers who are trying to fix FL after a hurricane? |
Anonymous
Good for the roofers and the tradesmen. Maybe the insane pay will get more women and marginal students out of garbage retail or low-paid medical jobs and into the trades. Question is whether they will be able to afford anything with their higher wages, since the cost of everything else is likely to go through the roof as well… |
Anonymous
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This was pushed by Iger's replacement Chapek, and Iger was always against it.
Now that he's back in charge, he canceled it. Plus Disney has about $3 billion they need to come up with, per a whistleblower who went to the SEC. Canceling this project would help, along with all the Chapek layoffs that Iger is moving forward with. He even fired Victoria Alonso. |
Anonymous
| People are awfully gleeful about wanting cheap labor. |
Anonymous
Cheap labor is the foundation of the American way of life. Imagine if we were forced to pay inflation-adjusted 1950s prices for labor, food, and clothing, on 2020s scanty wages. People these days don’t have the hands on knowledge on how to fix houses and cars that precious generations had. (You can’t even fix most cars at home these days due to the technology). So many Americans are already living paycheck to paycheck and relying dangerously on credit. For years cheap labor is what kept them feeling “middle class” by ensuring they had the basics for life. People are going to have to make some tough choices because their personal wage gains are not going to come anywhere close to the added costs they will face in almost every sector of the economy. |
Anonymous
| This morning i checked Foxnews website to see how they took the news given their clear support for De Santis lately and it did not disappoint, they clearly took our the big guns given the crisis: first news a photo of a Black man and a title like "Black man demands $3M reparation for each Black person, White people be warned", then an articles about Michelle Obama, a true and tried asset in times of FoxNews' need, then something about Dylan Mulvaney and then the usual series of pedophile kid-grooming teachers and so on. not a peep about Disney pulling the project |