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Tyranthraxus posted...

On one hand fuck DeSantis.

On the other hand this is literally Shadowrun.

To a degree yes. It's not quite corporate sovereignty in the way of Shadowrun because it's still bound by Federal and State statutes. It's those statutes that are in fact limiting Florida's ability to strip Disney's status. They can, they just have to wait until the last bond is paid off in 2029. Something they should have considered be guaranteeing the bonds to the purchasors.

You have to remember that for the most part the Reedy Creek district was created because the state and counties did not want to have to provide service to the massive amounts of land that Disney was developing. Development that in the long run has made the state far far more than it ever would have paid out in services.

So yeah, DeSantis should have absolutely known better, the states lawyers should have been able to tell them that this would backfire. On the other hand maybe we should look at this whole fucking mess and say "perhaps corporations are far too enmeshed in our political and legal system and we should act to prevent that from occurring in the future".