Disney is not now, nor has it ever been a “private government”. It had a special taxing district to construct and maintain the infrastructure at the land it owned in Orange and Osceola counties in central Florida. Disney paid property taxes to the two counties and raised $105 Million to support the infrastructure plus another $60 Million to cover the $1.0 to 1.7 Billion in bonds needed to build the infrastructure. Disney has it own fire department, but not a police department because it isn’t a government.

What cancelling the Reedy Creek tax district has done is reduced about $ 165 Million in taxes Disney has been paying and transfers the liability for the bonds to the two counties. The reason for Reedy Creek was the reality that the two counties couldn’t afford to build the infrastructure or obtain the funding necessary. It’s not as if Disney was building an NFL stadium which would have been totally taxpayer funded. 😈

Dementis screwed Florida taxpayers. Orange and Osceola counties never got a chance to testify before the legislature sold them into bankruptcy. Their only hope is that Disney fights the law and wins.

Note: I live in a special tax district which combines my tiny town with two other areas on the Panhandle to finance a fire department. We lease police services from the Sheriff, because our own police officer would be too expensive.

It is ANZAC Day in Australia and New Zealand, which is similar to the American Veterans Day, in that it began as a remembrance of World War I, and has become more generalized over the years.

“Anzac Day commemorates the involvement of Australian and New Zealand troops in a World War I campaign on the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey.”

The Gallipoli Campaign began as a Winston Churchill [then First Lord of the Admiralty] plan that spun out of control and got a lot of people killed on both sides with nothing much changing, but then, that was quite common in World War I.

Peter Weir made a movie, Gallipoli, which, if nothing else, proves that Sergeant Alvin York, and T.E. Lawrence weren’t the only people who fought in World War I.

[Note: The date is April 25 which is April 24 in the US because of the time zone difference.]