FL Gov.Ron DeSantis Signs Bill to Remove Disney’s Tax Privilege and Self-Governing Status — Disney Stocks Down 14% in One Month — Fitch Puts Stock on Negative Watch

Gateway Pundit – by Jim Hoft

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law on Friday that terminates all special districts that were enacted in Florida prior to 1968, including Disney’s Reedy Creek Improvement District. The new law will remove Disney’s tax privilege and special governing status.

The Reedy Creek Improvement District, which was created by state lawmakers in 1967, is the governing jurisdiction and special taxing district for the land of Walt Disney World Resort.

Rep. Randy Fine filed HB3C on Tuesday to end six of 1,844 special districts, including the Reedy Creek Improvement District.

The Florida Senate passed legislation on Wednesday to end Disney’s special tax privilege and self-governing status on a 23-16 vote.

On Thursday, the Florida House voted 68-38 in favor to strip Disney’s self-government.

Lefty protesters screeched like demons as lawmakers voted to pass the legislation.

Today, Governor Ron DeSantis fulfilled his request to remove Disney’s tax privilege and self-governing power. The new law will formally take effect on June 1, 2023.

Click Orlando reported:

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law that eliminates special districts created before 1968, including Disney’s Reedy Creek Improvement District.

The governor signed several bills during a ceremony at a South Florida charter school Friday afternoon, including the special districts bill introduced by Rep. Randy Fine. The Reedy Creek Improvement District — created by state lawmakers in 1967 — acts as Walt Disney World’s own government with two cities and land in Orange and Osceola counties.

DeSantis commented on Disney’s action during Friday’s news conference and said if “none of that had happened, this is the right thing to do,” calling Disney’s government “unlike anything else that we know in the state of Florida.”

“No individual or no company in Florida is treated this way, and it’s not right to have this similar treatment. But you know, they had exercised a lot of power over the years. It was never anything that was debated. In fact, I don’t even know that I knew the name of it prior to this becoming something that was live in the past few months,” he said.

According to the wording of the bill, it will dissolve “any independent special district established by a special act prior to the date of ratification of the Florida Constitution on November 5, 1968 and which was not reestablished, re-ratified, or otherwise reconstituted by a special act or general law after November 5, 1968.”

Although details are far from clear, the proposal could have huge tax implications for Disney.

Disney stock is now down 14% in the last month and 23% since January.

And Fitch Ratings put Disney on a negative rating watch earlier today.

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5 thoughts on “FL Gov.Ron DeSantis Signs Bill to Remove Disney’s Tax Privilege and Self-Governing Status — Disney Stocks Down 14% in One Month — Fitch Puts Stock on Negative Watch

  1. Wow, I did not know Disney has its own government in Florida. Just a little touch of corporate corruption; just a little pocket of fascism. All of these unlawful governments and non-governments attempt to rule by theft and deception ignoring The Bill of Rights. They show favoritism, grant special status, all money-driven. Disney can just go float off into NeverNever Land, and take the rest of the U.S. Corporation with it.

    Hope they transport very far
    When you wish upon a star.

    🙂

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      1. Based on what DeSantis has been up to, that certainly can be the case. For some he plays the good guy. But he’s just doing his part, playin’ his role, so some folks think they have representation with him. I’ve seen him worship at the wall:

        https://www.flgov.com/2019/05/30/photo-release-governor-ron-desantis-visits-the-western-wall-and-the-church-of-the-holy-sepulchre/

        All this while the machine marches on, to perversion/communism/reset. But others are marchin’ on, too.

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        1. ” Our government will have the appearance of a paternal patriarchal guardianship on the part of our ruled. They will then be so thoroughly imbued with the thought that it is impossible for them to dispense with this wardship and guidance… They will rejoice that we have regulated everything in their lives as is done by wise parents who desire to train children in the cause of duty and submission. For the peoples of the world are only children under age, precisely as are also their governments.”
          — The Protocols of the Elders of Zion: 15-20

          Wait’ll they find out what those “children” have grown up to be.

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