Ron DeSantis was quick to respond to Disney's lawsuit against him. The Florida governor said during his visit to Israel that the entertainment giant dislikes"living by the same rules as everyone else."
They are upset because they have to live by the same rules as everyone else. They don't want to pay the same taxes as everyone else and want to be able to control things without proper oversight. The days of putting a company on a pedestal without accountability are over in the state of Florida.
The Republican governor re-emphasized, moreover, that previously existing pacts between the Mickey Mouse company and Florida were not beneficial to The Sunshine State:
That agreement was not good for the state of Florida. We do not think this should continue. So now we have brought responsibility. And so, the idea that somehow being pro-business means giving companies their own governments, that's not what a free market is about.
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Florida's governor also stated that Walt Disney World had been given preferential treatment over other theme parks and that this should end as soon as possible:
They have been treated very differently than Universal, Sea World and all these other places. They don't want to have to pay the same taxes as everyone else and they want to be able to control things without proper oversight.
