RE: Ken Ham's Creation museum is FAILING!!!!!
July 6, 2017 at 12:08 am
(This post was last modified: July 6, 2017 at 12:14 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(July 6, 2017 at 12:01 am)Astonished Wrote: Well, but whatever private investors he had to bilk out of quite a bit of cash have to be calling for his head, right? Why aren't we hearing anything of that sort? It can't have possibly all come exclusively out of the state's funding and subsidies, right? Or out of Ham's own pocket, he's at least above the minimum level of IQ needed to avoid being labeled mentally handicapped to have the foresight not to put his own ill-gotten fortune at risk.The investors -are- calling for his head. The state tourism boards allows an organization to recoup up to 25% of it's costs from taxes to residents of affected counties and sales tax rebates from visitors. The counties in question are outliers..not just in the state in their religiosity, but nationally recognized as such. It's one of the densest packings of evangelicals anywhere in the US. The tax code was flexible, the residents were sympathetic, and there were millions laying on the table for the taking. That's why the park was built where it was. Mind you, the remainder of the money that was needed but not raised to build the park was not actual money...but credit. When the park defaults (as it will) AIG won't lose a single cent. Sure, they collected actual cash donations and actual cash from investors..but they didn't -spend- that to build the park. Why would they? Particularly, when they could grift the princely sum of 62million in TIF funds from Williamstown?
Yay, churches ftw!
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