Megyn Kelly and Gov. Ron DeSantis
From The Megyn Kelly Show
Corporate WelfareDisneyFlorida Politics
Transcript
Not entitled to corporate welfare. You do not have a constitutional right to. I know that, but it's not about entitlement. It's not about. If I go to my boss and I say, I, you sexually harassed me, and then suddenly he reduces my salary from 200,000 to 100,000, that's retaliation. I am worse off. And it's not a defense to say, well, everybody else at the company was getting 100,000. You've reduced my circumstance. You punished me. Now. But that, That's a. That's an employer employee relationship. I think that that's much different. But this is the state taking away a benefit. But your. But your position is that Florida should be forced to subsidize Disney, regardless of how it's going to use those subsidies so that they can weaponize the subsidies they get from the state and turn it against state policy. Why would we want to subsidize that behavior? Why should taxpayers? I get it. I get it right there. But I don't want a President Gavin Newsom, doing this to conservative companies or companies who have a more conservative viewpoint. Well, here's what I would say. I don't think there's any arrangement in America that mirrored the arrangement Disney had in Florida for many, many decades. I mean, I think it was a unique situation where we just could not justify. How could you be exempt from laws that every other company in business has to follow? An individual. How could you be exempt from taxes? How could you rack up municipal debt on your own when they didn't have it? So, you know, they had powers to build their own nuclear power plant. They had extraterritorial eminent domain. They had a lot of. You lived in a subdivision outside of Disney. They actually had the right to seize your property if they wanted to expand beyond the district. So this was something that was just totally, totally unjustifiable. But it lived on in Florida for many, many decades because they were just so powerful. But take apart all of the stuff with, with the sexualization, children, all that just on the merits, was this an arrangement that was justifiable? And the answer is no. But no one really questioned it in the legislature because they enjoyed a lot of political sway and move on. What's your plan to protect women and girls from men who claim they are trans trying to get into our spaces and our sports? Well, in Florida, we've done all of that. So girls sports, women's sports is protected. Men can't be injecting themselves into those competitions. It takes away opportunities for girls and for women athletes and we did that years ago here as governor. We've also protected the locker rooms and the bathrooms so that men are not.