Letters: Do theme parks need tourist-tax money?
The entertainment industry can influence how TDT money is spent — why haven’t they? The article suggests that theme park leaders in Central Florida should not rely on tourist-tax money, given the current law regarding the cost of comfort in Orlando, compared to previous industries that ignored poor housing conditions and failed to compensate their employees for profit. The author suggests that the leaders of the Central Florida entertainment industry have a significant influence on how tourist tax dollars are spent and on political leaders who can change the laws. He also notes that the LGBT+ community, who identify as a small percentage, is demanding their own way in issues such as pronoun usage in our schools, and flags flying over embassies, and climate change denial efforts by Florida legislators. The article also criticizes the Republican-controlled Legislature for passing an anti-climate change agenda, while hurricanes brew and sea level rises.
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Theme-park leaders should let tourist-tax money go
In his March 31 column, “The price of comfort in Orlando: $100,298,” Scott Maxwell was again speaking about the epidemic of low wage earners and affordable housing in Orlando. This reminds me of another time in the South’s not-too-distant past when a large industry ignored the terrible housing conditions and failure to compensate its employees for the sake of profit… until there was a Civil War.
Now, I do not want to put the monkey entirely on the back of the leaders of our Central Florida entertainment industry. I know you need to keep your product affordable (ha!) and you do need to make a reasonable profit, but you also have a great deal of influence on how the “tourist tax” dollars are spent and on the political leaders who can change the laws. Is it not time to loosen the stranglehold the law has placed on that revenue?
I know those guys are smart. Let’s do something critical thinking for their employees and the community. We have been crying for local infrastructure and law enforcement support. And would it not be nice to come up with a path toward home ownership for low-income employees? Perhaps, before it is too late?
LGBTQ+ community wants too much
What percentage of the people in the U.S. identify as LGBTQ+? I would guess a very small percentage. Why are they so vocal and so adamant to change our culture, and, yes, our children?
Certainly, as a nation we want to protect our citizens, yet why do we need to bend over backward at this small number who demand their own way in things such as pronoun usage in our schools, and flags of their colors flying over embassies? If others don’t agree with them we are “targeting” them (“Judge hears challenge to Florida teacher pronoun law,” March 31).
How chaotic that would be, if we let every small group force their ideas on the majority, disregarding the opinions of the many, infiltrating our schools and the next generation. And those who disagree with them, quiet as lambs, are led to the slaughter of our culture as we know it.
Rather than a live-and-let-live mentality with this small group, it seems to be “I demand my own way,” like a child throwing a temper tantrum.
Our Florida legislators (and Gov. Ron DeSantis) are trying to deny climate change on multiple fronts, besides banning offshore wind power and removing specific words from our statutes. HB 1645 would also impinge on the “home rule” of local governments to enforce clean-energy provisions, and further lock us in to “natural” gas as the endorsed source of electricity generation, as well as kneecapping electric vehicles.
This is the anti-woke agenda that our Republican-controlled Legislature is passing, while hurricanes brew and sea level rises around us.
Chủ đề: Social Issues, Climate Change, LGBTQ, ESG