A few weeks ago I reported that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis wasn't through with Disney. After eliminating Disney World's special taxing district in an act of revenge, he now planned to reinstate the district but with a board appointed entirely by him.
It seemed as if DeSantis was taking further revenge, but not everyone thought so. Maybe there was something else involved in all this?
It turns out that, yes, there was. S.V. Date has the story:
An unintended consequence of last April’s law was to transfer Disney’s outstanding debt onto the 700,000 homeowners and businesses in Orange and Osceola counties. Had that law taken effect on June 1 as scheduled, their tax bills would have increased by thousands of dollars per year until 2038.
Ouch. That would be very bad for someone who wants to run for president as a conservative. So the special district is back.
Date reports that at the signing ceremony today DeSantis also unleashed a barrage of falsehoods about the whole affair. Click the link above for the whole story.
These are not unintended consequences, incompetence coupled to a severely crippled perception of reality could be seen as predictable.
Lies, Kevin, not falsehoods. If I want "falsehoods", I can go to any MSM news site.
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DeSantis is more fart than turd and will quickly vanish in the breeze from an open window, while what Republicans are looking for and what they deeply need to have is a really good crap.
So, I'm thinking Kristi Noem. She has all the creep factor and all the asshole factor to produce both a foul stench and a really massive dump while making them all feel good about themselves, and I think she'll seem largely bangable to the wingnut mind.
I think this is all the analysis the topic requires, she's simply awful, and aside from being a woman she's perfect, and I think they can get past that, just for the occasion.
Also I don't think Trump can do much against her, she's spent her career displaying the halfwit's version of balls.
A huge tax bill for residents of Orange and Osceola counties, would clearly be wrong, morally and politically. However, while I dislike the partisan nature of the advisory board, I actually agree with the concept: Disney's monarch like power over issues of local planning, exceeded the latitude of any other corporation in the US.
While the deal the Disney got in FL originally was likely necessary, the corporation's un checked power has out lived it usefulness in my opinion.
It might be as you say, but it doesn't matter if news outlets are going to cover it like he's John Wayne at high noon and the libtards at Disney are cowering from his derp hammer of retribution. For instance...
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/desantis-takes-disney-district-punishing-company-97494300
Should help Disney in a lawsuit if everyone characterizes what happened as "punishment" for Disney. But of course, that assumes Disney is interested in suing DeSantis. (Normally, government isn't allowed to pass laws negatively targeting a specific company or taxpayer... and especially not to diminish their First Amendment rights.)
But - then Disney should be happy if they get out of their debt obligations and don't have to pay as many taxes.
But Disney isn't happy about this.