DeSantis: the real deal?

May 19th, 2023 at 8:07:44 AM permalink
kenarman
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Us people living in Florida would not be happy at all if Disney left. The amount of tax they pay would have to be recovered from me and my neighbors and one of the reasons we live in Florida is because taxes are low. Paying no state income tax is very nice and I don't want that to change.


Florida's 2023 budget is $177 billion. There doesn't seem to be a lot of consensus on what Disney pays, if we put it at $1 billion they are less than 1% of Florida's budget. Significant but far from seriously effecting the states finances.
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May 19th, 2023 at 8:17:41 AM permalink
rxwine
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Quote: kenarman
Florida's 2023 budget is $177 billion. There doesn't seem to be a lot of consensus on what Disney pays, if we put it at $1 billion they are less than 1% of Florida's budget. Significant but far from seriously effecting the states finances.


Cmon' Kenarman, DePreying Mantis will sell AR-15s all day in Florida without regard to who they kill including kids, and he's attacked Disney, the biggest business in Florida, for some free speech issue.
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May 19th, 2023 at 8:48:12 AM permalink
kenarman
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Cmon' Kenarman, DePreying Mantis will sell AR-15s all day in Florida without regard to who they kill including kids, and he's attacked Disney, the biggest business in Florida, for some free speech issue.


You phrase it as 'free speech' many see it as protecting children, the same as you see banning AR-15's as protecting children.
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May 19th, 2023 at 9:29:23 AM permalink
rxwine
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You phrase it as 'free speech' many see it as protecting children, the same as you see banning AR-15's as protecting children.


I wish someone would decide if individual parents (a minority vote) can demand certain teaching, or a majority of parents can decide, or their elected school board reps can decide, or Ron DeSantis can decide. Yup, that needs to be worked out and it hasn't been.

Seems Ron Fascist-minded DeSantis wants to decide.
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May 19th, 2023 at 10:29:23 AM permalink
SOOPOO
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It has been funny reading the lefty anti DeSantis posts! Floridians must really hate him! That must be why he DESTROYED his opponent last election? Businesses must hate him too! That’s why people are moving to Florida in DROVES from states like (fill in ANY high tax Democrat run state). That’s why Florida has been INCREASING its worker base while they are leaking from NY, Cali, etc….

I agree that he doesn’t win a Presidential election now, but that is SOLELY due to the albatross named Donald Trump. Florida is a state like many of the so called swing states. DeSantis DOMINATED in Florida. His (stupid) abortion policy was known. His LGTBQIA+ policies were known. Had Trump endorsed DeSantis he would have CRUSHED Biden.

CRUSHED.
May 19th, 2023 at 10:34:31 AM permalink
ams288
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It has been funny reading the lefty anti DeSantis posts! Floridians must really hate him! That must be why he DESTROYED his opponent last election? Businesses must hate him too! That’s why people are moving to Florida in DROVES from states like (fill in ANY high tax Democrat run state). That’s why Florida has been INCREASING its worker base while they are leaking from NY, Cali, etc….

I agree that he doesn’t win a Presidential election now, but that is SOLELY due to the albatross named Donald Trump. Florida is a state like many of the so called swing states. DeSantis DOMINATED in Florida. His (stupid) abortion policy was known. His LGTBQIA+ policies were known. Had Trump endorsed DeSantis he would have CRUSHED Biden.

CRUSHED.


Well, now that jcw is long gone we did need someone to supply us with right wing fan fiction!
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May 19th, 2023 at 10:39:17 AM permalink
Mission146
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It has been funny reading the lefty anti DeSantis posts! Floridians must really hate him! That must be why he DESTROYED his opponent last election? Businesses must hate him too! That’s why people are moving to Florida in DROVES from states like (fill in ANY high tax Democrat run state). That’s why Florida has been INCREASING its worker base while they are leaking from NY, Cali, etc….

I agree that he doesn’t win a Presidential election now, but that is SOLELY due to the albatross named Donald Trump. Florida is a state like many of the so called swing states. DeSantis DOMINATED in Florida. His (stupid) abortion policy was known. His LGTBQIA+ policies were known. Had Trump endorsed DeSantis he would have CRUSHED Biden.

CRUSHED.


I am fairly confident that Florida is no longer a swing state.
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May 19th, 2023 at 11:03:02 AM permalink
rxwine
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It has been funny reading the lefty anti DeSantis posts! Floridians must really hate him! That must be why he DESTROYED his opponent last election? Businesses must hate him too! That’s why people are moving to Florida in DROVES from states like (fill in ANY high tax Democrat run state). That’s why Florida has been INCREASING its worker base while they are leaking from NY, Cali, etc….

I agree that he doesn’t win a Presidential election now, but that is SOLELY due to the albatross named Donald Trump. Florida is a state like many of the so called swing states. DeSantis DOMINATED in Florida. His (stupid) abortion policy was known. His LGTBQIA+ policies were known. Had Trump endorsed DeSantis he would have CRUSHED Biden.

CRUSHED.


I thought he might be okay for two weeks. I didn't really know his positions before he was elected. No reason to dig any deeper as I voting for someone who I agreed with mostly already.
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May 19th, 2023 at 11:05:27 AM permalink
rxwine
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And to say I've fully and actively turned on him is entirely correct.
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May 19th, 2023 at 11:25:05 AM permalink
SOOPOO
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And to say I've fully and actively turned on him is entirely correct.


I can easily understand a large swath of the country’s voters never voting for him. What you guys can’t see is the simmering discontent in an equally large group of voters on issues like ‘asylum’ seekers overwhelming municipalities. On those gender type issues you think don’t ‘affect’ you. On reparations. On school issues. On taxes. On racial issues. On etc….
They will vote for him over Biden or Harris or Newsom. There are enough of them in the swing states to give him an electoral college win. (If it wasn’t for poison Trump)