Ark Sunk

[thesummerqueen]

It'll come out of the pockets of the poor through tithing somehow - it usually does.

[Heywood]

I don't really care if it's a rebate or a subsidy. Kentucky is full of impoverished people. Give them the rebates, or use what would be the rebate to go towards education or food and housing assistance subsidies. If the people who want this display of deep-seated religious insecurity constructed really want it, every penny should come entirely out of their own pockets, with no rebates or incentives of any kind from the government. After all, most of the people who have a vested interest in this are surely the same sort of people who think that the poor literally steal food stamps directly out of their bank accounts.

This wasn't some special kick back to Hamm. The is a pre-established rebate program to provide an incentive for people to build tourist attractions. If Disney decided to build Super Disney World in Kentucty....they would apply for this program and probably get approved for it just like the Ark clowns did.

This isn't some subsidy....it is a state incentive to bring money and jobs to the state. And now it seems, the state might be discriminating against religious corporations by not allowing them to participate in this program.

Me thinks this is going to become a fascinating case.

[Ryantology]

Not if this hypothetical Super Disney World decided that they only wanted to hire Christian employees.

This "religious corporation" wants the benefits of incorporating, but they don't want to play by the same rules everyone else does.

[Heywood]

Not if this hypothetical Super Disney World decided that they only wanted to hire Christian employees.

This "religious corporation" wants the benefits of incorporating, but they don't want to play by the same rules everyone else does.

Your conception of what the rules should be is NOT what the rules are. What the rules are is what is codified into law. If you look at the laws as written, these Ark clowns might have a pretty good case.

[Chas]

I'm sure some generous doners will help him.

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People sympathetic to Hamm will ralley behind him. So Hamm gets more support(including monetary) from his core and free publicity from you atheists types for keeping this tourist project in the spot light.

Its a double win for Hamm.

If they want to spend their money on this stupidity, that's their call.
The problem was always that they were using public money.

[Heywood]

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People sympathetic to Hamm will ralley behind him. So Hamm gets more support(including monetary) from his core and free publicity from you atheists types for keeping this tourist project in the spot light.

Its a double win for Hamm.

If they want to spend their money on this stupidity, that's their call.
The problem was always that they were using public money.

Except they were not using public money to build the site.

What they were promised was a sales tax rebate after they spend their own money to build the site.

[Alex K]

By the way, are they still planning to.have live animals in the ark?

[Minimalist]

I wonder where they'll get the dinosaurs?

[Tonus]

I wonder where they'll get the dinosaurs?

Got three of them right here:

[Anomalocaris]

I wonder where they'll get the dinosaurs?

Got three of them right here:

You realize dinosaurs were not dumb reptiles, right?