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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRon DeSantis' Disney Revenge Could Cost Florida Residents $1 Billion
In Texas, when a city incorporates unincorporated territory, the city assumes and discharges the MUD municipal utility district debt. This is the same concept
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Residents of two Florida counties could end up footing the bill if the state abolishes a special district that has allowed the Walt Disney Company to operate its own local government.....
Farmer, who sponsored the bill, discussed the potential impact on Orange and Osceola counties' residents, saying the population would amount to around 1.75 million people.
"The debt service alone for Reedy Creek is over $1 billion," Farmer said. "This bill makes no provision as to how that debt service is going to be assumed."
The Democrat pointed to another law that said that local government entities would have to pick up the debt of special districts that are dissolved.
The Reedy Creek Improvement District has a long-term bonded debt of $977,215,801, according to its 2021 annual financial report.....
"So this is not supposition, this is not conjecture, this is Florida law that says those 1.7 million people are going to have to pick up this bill," Farmer said, adding that the $1 billion figure doesn't include other items covered by the district, citing fire fighter services and parking garages, among other services.
"All totaled, we're probably talking about $1.5 to $2 billion of obligation - of liabilities," Farmer said.
He went to say that "the debt service alone would amount to $580 per person."
Farmer, who sponsored the bill, discussed the potential impact on Orange and Osceola counties' residents, saying the population would amount to around 1.75 million people.
"The debt service alone for Reedy Creek is over $1 billion," Farmer said. "This bill makes no provision as to how that debt service is going to be assumed."
The Democrat pointed to another law that said that local government entities would have to pick up the debt of special districts that are dissolved.
The Reedy Creek Improvement District has a long-term bonded debt of $977,215,801, according to its 2021 annual financial report.....
"So this is not supposition, this is not conjecture, this is Florida law that says those 1.7 million people are going to have to pick up this bill," Farmer said, adding that the $1 billion figure doesn't include other items covered by the district, citing fire fighter services and parking garages, among other services.
"All totaled, we're probably talking about $1.5 to $2 billion of obligation - of liabilities," Farmer said.
He went to say that "the debt service alone would amount to $580 per person."
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Ron DeSantis' Disney Revenge Could Cost Florida Residents $1 Billion (Original Post)
LetMyPeopleVote
Apr 2022
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SoCalDavidS
(9,998 posts)1. If They Gave A Shit, They Would Vote Him Out
But they wont, so I couldnt care less.
BlueTsunami2018
(3,492 posts)2. It's worth any price to "own the libs".
Thats all that matters to these mouthbreathers. Disney should use their massive media presence to help oust that fuck.
Takket
(21,577 posts)3. The DNC should be BLUDGEONING the airwaves with this in the fall
Kid Berwyn
(14,909 posts)4. DeSatan bit off more rat than he can chew.
Ha ha!
Samrob
(4,298 posts)5. Yes, maybe they will have to start paying state income taxes and stop living off blue-state dole. n
Nittersing
(6,362 posts)7. Nothing more than a distraction from redistricting nt
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,033 posts)8. Another stable genius
And his ideas smell like a shit filled stable.
Aristus
(66,386 posts)9. DeSantis will leave Florida before Disney leaves.
n/t
PlanetBev
(4,104 posts)10. Supposedly, he's popular in Florida
Well, alright then, hes all yours. Enjoy your time in Hell.
PatSeg
(47,501 posts)11. I'm no huge fan of Disney,
but I'm rooting for them in this case. How could any governor be so stupid to piss off Disney and compromise the revenue that the company brings to the state? The lunacy among republican governors must be contagious.
Sucha NastyWoman
(2,749 posts)12. Republican Governors are EXPENSIVE!
lindysalsagal
(20,692 posts)13. I certainly hope it does. FL gotta wake up and stop electing GQP!
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,313 posts)14. From President Biden