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>Seems like the system is working just fine here. They gifted a parking garage/ 1 billion dollars of tax-payer funds to a multinational corporation who was har

• inestyne 9y ago
  If you live in that town and work for Disney you probably think it's working just fine.
  • kevinh 9y ago
    From the article: > Chris Shively, an Anaheim resident and server at Blue Bayou restaurant in Disneyland, drives by the Mickey & Friends garage each day knowing that city tax dollars are paying for the facility. > “It’s a company — they have their own best interests,” he said. “But it is definitely something where the company, Disney, got a great deal — a deal that we are paying for. Absolutely frustrating.”
  • tomjakubowski 9y ago
    Anaheim's population is roughly 350k. Disneyland has 22k employees. Obviously, not all of them live in Anaheim; anecdotally, at one time I knew a handful of Disneyland employees and only one of them lived in the city. I'm sure Disney corporate, headquartered in nearish-by Burbank, employs some Anaheim residents too, but you're still talking about a small minority of Anaheim's citizens. It's also not clear why an ordinary Anaheim citizen and employee of Disney would be happy with this arrangement.
  • kbart 9y ago
    I certainly would be pissed finding out that my city officials effectively donated billion to a private company.