Ironically, the big reason they've got that is because Republicans were basically paying them off for political contributions. The euphemistically named "Mickey Mouse Protection Act" is, of course, more formally called the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act -- named after the corrupt Republican Congressman whom Disney purchased to take the lead on it.
Disney World becomes unaffordable for the average American family
- Thread starter anatta
- Start date
Ironically, the big reason they've got that is because Republicans were basically paying them off for political contributions. The euphemistically named "Mickey Mouse Protection Act" is, of course, more formally called the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act -- named after the corrupt Republican Congressman whom Disney purchased to take the lead on it.
Life is Golden
The Sage
Like Chick Fil A was?
they area no different from any other comparable resort.
hell juszt go to an NFL game and see what a hot dog and a beer run you.
Disney has been paying Republicans in Florida for decades. They payed DeSantis a ton, and he worked with them until they crossed him.
no. they limit the sale of tickets and require a "reseravtion" as well to keep the overcrowding
But you put your finger on it.
American families are being priced out and richer foreigners are taking their place
That's all the OP said, and was intended..
There is a general loathing around here for Diz even though a lot work there.
I havent seen any evidence Chick Fil A was punished as such, but if they were they should not have been. Did a governor do that, because I wont vote for him/her if one did.
Eagle_Eye
Well-known member
Been there done that. Cheaper togo to Epcot to sample other cultures.
I suspect the foreign visitors aren't the driving consideration. The last I saw, something like four out of five Disney visitors are Americans, not foreigners.
What may be driving a change is the tendency for median incomes to stratify across the US. Liberal states like Massachusetts, Washington, Oregon, and California have long been richer than conservative states, but they've actually been pulling farther away from the pack in recent years. Where they've had median incomes grow at an annualized pace of 3.5-4%, most conservative states are in the 2%-3% range. And, meanwhile, the liberal states also tend to have smaller families, so it's easier to afford to take the family somewhere. As such, it could be that people from these rich-and-getting-richer states are just pricing out people from other places. To maximize profits, Disney wants to charge as much as it can get per ticket, and the ability to pay is just hugely different in some parts of the country.
Even those state-by-state numbers understate the differences you see locally, particularly between urban/suburban areas and rural ones. There are a lot of counties where a median household earns far over $100k/year -- mostly near big cities in blue states. Meanwhile, out in rural counties in red states, it's not uncommon to have median household incomes well under $30k/year. The difference between, say, Wheeler County, Georgia, and Loudoun County, Virginia, is something like $120k per year.
they should not of pursued policy that pisses off so many voters while also expecting to get preferential treatment from voters
So you are against capitalism and want Disney World to be run in the public interest.
I brought up the 1976 lobbying act - Sonny Bono was a decade later
but thanks for being that partisan douchebag that has to make this be about parties
You are obviously unaware of all theme parks in southern California Disney competes against.
If you have suddenly become a socialist and want Disney operated in the public interest, just lobby your Republican Representatives to make the party more socialist
can Universal use Mickey Mouse?
no. so not like Universal.
these protections are designed to allow/encourage invention and artistic expression to be lucrative - but it has went too far.
you are a moron. allowing corporations to own rights for 95 years is anticompetitive. Disney can and should have to compete against others that also can have princesses, Mickey Mouses, etc. Government gave them protections long enough, time for those protections to end and make them compete
If I dont want jobs outsourced to China -am I against capitalism?
A lot of the MAGA hats and merchandise are outsourced and produced in China, and you didn't complain about it one single time in five years.
Your beef with Disney is obviously simply motivated by sheer mindless partisanship.
Yes. The Sonny Bono act is the one frequently referred to as the Mickey Mouse act, since it was the one Disney moved on because Steamboat Willy (Mickey Mouse's first appearance) was about to fall into the public domain and so they wanted to freeze the public domain indefinitely. That's why they felt the need to buy up Congress members (not just Bono, but Orrin Hatch, the bill's primary sponsor in the Senate, along with Elton Gallegly and Howard Coble, House Sponsors, and other big-name Congress members like Alfonse D'Amato, Trent Lott, Chuck Hagel, Dianne Feinstein, and Fred Thompson). They helped bankroll the majority of the sponsors both in the House and Senate, and were rewarded handsomely by retaining billions of dollars worth of intellectual property that would otherwise have naturally moved into the public domain. In essence, those politicians seized the future rights to that property, which would have belonged to people generally, and they handed it to a giant corporation that had financed their campaigns.
That's not entirely about party politics. There were scumbags on both sides of the aisle. But the movers and shakers in the effort were mostly the big-name Republicans. Those who opposed the effort were Democrats and liberals in general.