Seymour Flops
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You must be kidding.If Disney closes shop Florida will lose it's ass! All of the international travel to the parks will go away. The hotels will be empty which means no tax revenue. Restaurants in the area will close due to lack of business, again killing tax revenue. The other tourist attractions will lose spillover customers and there goes more tax revenue.
How do you think Florida manages to operate without a state income tax? Tourist bucks! Disney drives the tourism machine in the state. Without it, Florida turns into Mississippi or Alabama with just a little worse weather in those states during the winter.
Pardon me for saying old timer, you REALLY did not think this though or you would not have made such a stupid statement.
Disney located a theme park in Florida because it is a tourist destination, Florida isn't a tourist destination because of a Disney theme park.
They have Indian casinos, horse racing, Jai Alai, and poker, along with fishing, hunting, beaches, the Florida Keys, Universal Studios, Daytona Speedway, Seaworld, all in one of the mildest climates in the United States.
Suppose Disney pulls out, opting to give up their share of the tourist business, just to thumb their noses at DiSantis. Are they going to burn Disney World down out of spite before they go, or will they sell it to the highest bidder? Not even close to a non-rhetorical question. That highest bidder will then re-open the theme park, without the child grooming and parent hating, and be more successful than ever.
Texas doesn't have no dadgum Disney World and we don't have no dadgum income tax neither!