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Rhiannon12866

(255,843 posts)
Thu Apr 28, 2022, 08:55 PM Apr 2022

Republican Governor Costs His State Over 100 Million Dollars - Rebel HQ



In a misguided attempt to hurt Disney, Ron DeSantis revoked the company's self governing status. In doing so he's created a massive tax burden on Florida's own citizens. Alonzo Bodden breaks it down on Rebel HQ.


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Republican Governor Costs His State Over 100 Million Dollars - Rebel HQ (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Apr 2022 OP
It is over a billion dollars LetMyPeopleVote Apr 2022 #1
Rating agency warns Disney debt conflict could 'weaken' other Florida government bonds Read more at LetMyPeopleVote Apr 2022 #2
Good people pressbox69 Apr 2022 #3

LetMyPeopleVote

(180,020 posts)
1. It is over a billion dollars
Fri Apr 29, 2022, 12:55 AM
Apr 2022



In Texas, we are paying the Abbottax in the form of increase charges to recover the costs of last years freeze. My power bills are over $70 per month higher. Deathsantis has to keep up with the DeSantx



LetMyPeopleVote

(180,020 posts)
2. Rating agency warns Disney debt conflict could 'weaken' other Florida government bonds Read more at
Fri Apr 29, 2022, 01:50 AM
Apr 2022

The rating agencies are worried about DeathSantis' stupid stunt. This is going to cost the state of Florida and local governments a great deal. If the rating agencies down grade Florida's credit, the cost of borrowing goes up




https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article260873762.html

One of the nation’s leading bond rating agencies warned Thursday that if the state of Florida doesn’t resolve a conflict over its decision to repeal Walt Disney World’s Reedy Creek Improvement District and its obligation to investors, the move could harm the financial standing of other Florida governments.

Fitch Ratings posted the alert late Thursday on its Fitch Wire web site, nearly a week after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law the measure dissolving the special taxing district that governs Disney property by June 1, 2023. Reedy Creek Improvement District holds nearly $1 billion in bond debt and last week Fitch issued a “negative watch” because of the uncertainty around how that debt will be paid and by whom......

A 1967 state law that established the Reedy Creek Improvement District on 39 square miles of Disney property gave the district the power to issue bonds and tax itself to build roads, sewers and utilities, establish its police and fire departments, and regulate its construction. In exchange, the state pledged “it will not limit or alter the rights of the District...until all such bonds together with interest thereon...are fully met and discharged.”

The law dissolving the district does not address how the bonds will be paid, but on Friday when he signed the measure, DeSantis said: “We’re going to take care of all that. Don’t worry. We have everything thought out. Don’t let anyone tell you that somehow Disney is going to get a tax cut out of this. They’re going to pay more taxes as a result of that.”

There is no easy way of fixing this issue without endangering the credit of the state

pressbox69

(2,252 posts)
3. Good people
Fri Apr 29, 2022, 05:15 AM
Apr 2022

need to move out of those red hell hole states like Florida and Texas. Soon the penis state will be totally under water. Rumor has it that the Haunted Mansion in Disney World will relocate to 700 N Adams St. Tallahassee Fl. just as soon as the voters can remove the soulless ghoul that resides there now.

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