Florida Republicans’ war with Disney over the “Don’t Say Gay” bill is escalating with a new plan to dissolve the Reedy Creek Improvement District.
Florida Republicans are advancing a legislative attack against the Walt Disney Company’s special tax district in response to Disney denouncing the state’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill. Following a 68-38 Thursday vote, Florida’s House passed a bill designed to dismantle any and all of the state’s special tax districts that were created before 1968.
” First established in 1967, Reedy Creek empowered Disney to assume responsibility for a number of services and duties for its Florida landholdings that would typically fall to a local government, like providing utilities and emergency services and issuing bonds.
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