Disney attacks the people of flori-duh so says DeSantis.

[US&THEM]

Seriously?

Disney’s $578 Million Tax Break Left Untouched in DeSantis Feud

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis may have put a bull’s-eye on special perks that Walt Disney Co. has enjoyed in his state for more than 50 years, but he’s keeping his hands off hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks recently lavished on the entertainment giant.

www.bloomberg.com

Did you read it?

Florida economic development officials certified the credits in February 2020, according to documents obtained by Bloomberg News under a public records request. In its application for the incentives, Disney cited plans to move as many as 2,000 staffers, making an average of $120,000 a year, to a new corporate campus in the state. The campus will be in Lake Nona, about 20 miles southeast of downtown Orlando.

The company, one of the state’s largest employers because of its theme parks there, is investing $864 million in the relocation, including office construction, supplies and software improvements. Disney considered other states, including California, New York and Connecticut.

 

[The Mark]

I thought you people were all about big corporations paying their fair share?

You should be celebrating DeSantis as a hero of the people for making Disney pay taxes just like every other company does.

Or does being woke make Disney exempt from your rhetoric?

.

End goal does not mean sacrificing principles along the way though.
And this doesn't look like a play to make a big corporation pay their fair share, it looks like a play to use them as a strawman to launch a politician into a more powerful place.
Chances are they'll sue Florida and win, things will stay as is locally, but DeSantis will use the name recognition to run for President in 2024.

 

[US&THEM]

Disney World does wonders for the Florida economy. According to a 2011 report, “The $18.2 billion in annual economic activity generated locally by Walt Disney Parks and Resorts accounts for 2.5 percent of Florida’s gross domestic product.”

The same report found that in 2009, more than 1 in 50 employed Floridians had a job tied directly or indirectly to Disney World and its resorts. In Central Florida, the proportion was even higher, at 6%.

Disney is also the largest taxpayer in Central Florida, making the park a revenue boon for the government. In 2014, Orlando saw a record 32 million hotel room nights sold. That brought in hotel bed tax revenue of over $200 million, also a record for Orange County, Florida.

 

[Jay59]

Did you read it?

Florida economic development officials certified the credits in February 2020, according to documents obtained by Bloomberg News under a public records request. In its application for the incentives, Disney cited plans to move as many as 2,000 staffers, making an average of $120,000 a year, to a new corporate campus in the state. The campus will be in Lake Nona, about 20 miles southeast of downtown Orlando.

The company, one of the state’s largest employers because of its theme parks there, is investing $864 million in the relocation, including office construction, supplies and software improvements. Disney considered other states, including California, New York and Connecticut.

So you are a believer in corporate benevolence. Hurray.

Did you read the part about half a billion dollars in tax breaks that are not affected?

 

[US&THEM]

So you are a believer in corporate benevolence. Hurray.

Did you read the part about half a billion dollars in tax breaks that are not affected?

Disney is investing 864 million and adding 2k employees making over 100k. You do math?

 

[Jay59]

Disney is investing 864 million and adding 2k employees making over 100k.

So?

It's a nice number but not a show stopper. Florida's economy was about $1.3 Trillion last year.

You do math?

I teach math.

You seem to be having trouble with this. Do you need a tutor?

 

[US&THEM]

So?

It's a nice number but not a show stopper. Florida's economy was about $1.3 Trillion last year.


I teach math.

You seem to be having trouble with this. Do you need a tutor?

Haha there’s a shock

 

[reflechissez]

You are arguing that Disney carried the whole state on its back, which is a bit silly.

You're lying. Which is a bit silly.

 

[KingLeo]

I thought you people were all about big corporations paying their fair share?

You should be celebrating DeSantis as a hero of the people for making Disney pay taxes just like every other company does.

Or does being woke make Disney exempt from your rhetoric?

.

Will see how much celebrating Florida tax payers will be doing.

Florida taxpayers could face a $1 billion Disney debt bomb if its special district status is revoked​

Florida taxpayers could face a $1 billion Disney debt bomb if its special district status is revoked

The Florida legislature on Thursday cleared a bill that would dissolve Disney's special improvement district, effective June 2023.

www.cnbc.com

 

[Jay59]

Haha there’s a shock

What is, that I have a degree in Mathematics and Statistics or that I teach?

You're lying. Which is a bit silly.

I'm not. Reread his statement.

 

[US&THEM]

What is, that I have a degree in Mathematics and Statistics or that I teach?

Remember when all of those of those people said this guy is so much fun to be around he’s a math guy.

 

[Craig234]

I don't believe DeSantis has gone rouge. Maybe he volunteered to be the test case for some newfangled fascism that isn't into corporations.

Nothing new. Authoritarianism always is in a war for power against any other powerful people or entities. You can see this in China when they 'slap down' big companies, or billionaires, or people with big followings in social media just to 'keep them under control'. Republicans happily ally with powerful corporations - as long as those corporations do nothing to threaten the power of the party.

 

[Jay59]

Remember when all of those of those people said this guy is so much fun to be around he’s a math guy.

That's like an old Steve Martin line about the banjo player's Cadillac.

 

[uptower]

 

[jcgriff2]

After fifty years in Orlando, DeSantis decides Disney is a bad guy attacking his citizens.

So who has enough screws loose to understand what this even means? Help me to understand.

Simply put, after 50 years, it is time for Disney to pay taxes.

I thought that you people would be all over this "PAY YOUR FAIR SHARE" and all that nonsense.

Well, your dreams have come true.

 

[bongsaway]

Simply put, after 50 years, it is time for Disney to pay taxes.

I thought that you people would be all over this "PAY YOUR FAIR SHARE" and all that nonsense.

Well, your dreams have come true.

Use any method of your choosing and look up how much disney paid in taxes last year. It wasn't zero.

 

[bongsaway]

Did you read it?

Florida economic development officials certified the credits in February 2020, according to documents obtained by Bloomberg News under a public records request. In its application for the incentives, Disney cited plans to move as many as 2,000 staffers, making an average of $120,000 a year, to a new corporate campus in the state. The campus will be in Lake Nona, about 20 miles southeast of downtown Orlando.

The company, one of the state’s largest employers because of its theme parks there, is investing $864 million in the relocation, including office construction, supplies and software improvements. Disney considered other states, including California, New York and Connecticut.

Dang socialists.

 

[bongsaway]

So?

It's a nice number but not a show stopper. Florida's economy was about $1.3 Trillion last year.


I teach math.

You seem to be having trouble with this. Do you need a tutor?

And how much of that do you suppose comes from overseas and out of state visitors to orlando? Let me guess, 0.0001 percent? Tourism is flori-duh's main business and they sure aren't going to the panhandle by the millions.

 

[bongsaway]

You're lying. Which is a bit silly.

So typical. Once the argument is lost they start moving the goalposts. I don't recall any argument that disney is carrying the state but the over seven hundred million they paid in taxes last year kinda' shoots their claims that disney pays no taxes out of the water.

 

[bongsaway]

Will see how much celebrating Florida tax payers will be doing.

Florida taxpayers could face a $1 billion Disney debt bomb if its special district status is revoked​

Florida taxpayers could face a $1 billion Disney debt bomb if its special district status is revoked

The Florida legislature on Thursday cleared a bill that would dissolve Disney's special improvement district, effective June 2023.

www.cnbc.com

The leadership of the gop has been screwing their base for years which is why the southern states are so poor and controlled by republicans. They convince their base to vote against their own best interests and use culture warfare to feed red meat to their predominantly white base. If you notice, the gop ALWAYS needs an enemy to fight against. Gays, lesbians, gun control advocates, disney, books, words, math, socialists, brown people, immigration and on and on. Remember the death panels the gop warned us about, it was nothing more than projection on their part and who can deny they are experts at projecting?

 

[bongsaway]

What is, that I have a degree in Mathematics and Statistics or that I teach?


I'm not. Reread his statement.

Big deal. I was around for the big bang, I'm a day older than dirt, been everywhere but the moon and seen everything but the wind.

Please allow me to introduce myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
I've been around for a long, long years
Stole million man's soul an faith
And I was 'round when Jesus Christ
Had his moment of doubt and pain
Made damn sure that Pilate
Washed his hands and sealed his fate
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name
But what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game
Stuck around St. Petersburg
When I saw it was a time for a change
Killed Tsar and his ministers
Anastasia screamed in vain
I rode a tank
Held a general's rank
When the blitzkrieg raged
And the bodies stank
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name, oh yeah
Ah, what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, oh yeah
I watched with glee
While your kings and queens
Fought for ten decades
For the gods they made
I shouted out
Who killed the Kennedys?
When after all
It was you and me
Let me please introduce myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
And I laid traps for troubadours
Who get killed before they reached Bombay
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, oh yeah
But what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, oh yeah, get down, baby
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, oh yeah
But what's confusing you
Is just the nature of my game
Just as every cop is a criminal
And all the sinners saints
As heads is tails
Just call me Lucifer
'Cause I'm in need of some restraint
So if you meet me
Have some courtesy
Have some sympathy, and some taste
Use all your well-learned politnesse
Or I'll lay your soul to waste, mm yeah
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, mm yeah
But what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, mm mean it, get down
Woo, who
Oh yeah, get on down
Oh yeah
Aah yeah
Tell me baby, what's my name?
Tell me honey, can ya guess my name?
Tell me baby, what's my name?
I tell you one time, you're to blame
What's my name
Tell me, baby, what's my name?
Tell me, sweetie, what's my name?

What do ya' mean you don't believe me. It's right here on the internet for everyone to see, it must be true.

 

[Lloyd Christmas]

SUPPOSEDLY:
Disney shrugged at DeSantis' "Don't Say Gay" bill "until the organized woke Left pounded them into submission"...the old "get woke, go broke" trope. Even Bill Maher is hopping on board with this theory.

Except it wasn't some scurrilous organized far Left "woke" shakedown at all.
IT WAS DISNEY EMPLOYEES! It was gay and lesbian Disney workers!
OMG did anyone realize that Disney employs gay people?
SHOCKER!

It amazes me how the Right, so called supporters of the free market and free speech, can't tolerate any speech that makes them uncomfortable.

It's not amazing, these people are complete scumbag Taliban terrorists, plain and simple. Bin Laden is so happy with them, turning them against their country and into terrorists themselves with the 9/11 attacks

 

[tres borrachos]

One for DeSantis.


Disney is biting the hand that feeds them.

How does the state of Florida feed Disney?

 

[jcgriff2]

Use any method of your choosing and look up how much disney paid in taxes last year. It wasn't zero.

What kind of taxes?

 

[Jay59]

YOu're part of the problem.

Says the guy who doesn't know a fact when it slaps him in the face.

So typical. Once the argument is lost they start moving the goalposts. I don't recall any argument that disney is carrying the state but the over seven hundred million they paid in taxes last year kinda' shoots their claims that disney pays no taxes out of the water.

So that's what you're doing.

Big deal. I was around for the big bang, I'm a day older than dirt, been everywhere but the moon and seen everything but the wind.

Please allow me to introduce myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
I've been around for a long, long years
Stole million man's soul an faith
And I was 'round when Jesus Christ
Had his moment of doubt and pain
Made damn sure that Pilate
Washed his hands and sealed his fate
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name
But what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game
Stuck around St. Petersburg
When I saw it was a time for a change
Killed Tsar and his ministers
Anastasia screamed in vain
I rode a tank
Held a general's rank
When the blitzkrieg raged
And the bodies stank
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name, oh yeah
Ah, what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, oh yeah
I watched with glee
While your kings and queens
Fought for ten decades
For the gods they made
I shouted out
Who killed the Kennedys?
When after all
It was you and me
Let me please introduce myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
And I laid traps for troubadours
Who get killed before they reached Bombay
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, oh yeah
But what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, oh yeah, get down, baby
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, oh yeah
But what's confusing you
Is just the nature of my game
Just as every cop is a criminal
And all the sinners saints
As heads is tails
Just call me Lucifer
'Cause I'm in need of some restraint
So if you meet me
Have some courtesy
Have some sympathy, and some taste
Use all your well-learned politnesse
Or I'll lay your soul to waste, mm yeah
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, mm yeah
But what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, mm mean it, get down
Woo, who
Oh yeah, get on down
Oh yeah
Aah yeah
Tell me baby, what's my name?
Tell me honey, can ya guess my name?
Tell me baby, what's my name?
I tell you one time, you're to blame
What's my name
Tell me, baby, what's my name?
Tell me, sweetie, what's my name?

What do ya' mean you don't believe me. It's right here on the internet for everyone to see, it must be true.

I have no sympathy for the Devil. His work product sucks.

How does the state of Florida feed Disney?

Half a $Billion in tax breaks, for starters.

The point is well made that Disney is a California company trying to export California politics