Ark Sunk

[Jenny A]

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.

A tax rebate is no more no less than a gift from the government. Gifts from the government are government support.

If people who didn't attend church got a 10% rebate on income taxes paid, would you consider that a government gift? I bet you would. This is no different. Exemption from a tax or reduction of a tax which is ordinary paid by everyone else is government support.

It remains government support whether the government gives them to promote charity, job development, tourism, renewable energy, religious services, environmental protection, education, reparations for past discrimination, getting a football team in town, or any other reason. That is why church tax exemptions of any kind are a form of government support.