Ken Ham files lawsuit against Kentucky

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The incentive is a rebate. Ark Encounters has to generate the sales tax revenue for the state. Once the state has it money from the attraction it will rebate some of it back. Ark Encounters gets nothing up front from the state. If they build the thing and generate 0 dollars in sales tax revenue cause no one shows up....they get 0 dollars rebated back to them even if they spent a billion dollars building the thing.

The $11 million that the state has to shell out up front to build the interchange does matter. And if the Ark Encounter is only going to bring in 20% or less of the amount that was originally posited, do you think the anticipated numbers have no relevance to whether or not the state has a vested interest in giving incentives to the Ark Encounter? Even if there is a positive cash flow when all is said and done, is it worth $11 million up front plus lost tax revenue when you only reap $4.9 million over ten years? Maybe the answer is yes. But when Ken Ham is telling the state that he will reap them over $25 million in tax revenue when the reality is more like $5 mil, that is not a negligible difference.

You seem infatuated with tu quoque statements. Ken Ham lied here, and if someone else lied, it doesn't make Ken Ham right. Especially when he is requiring new hires to have "unimpeachable personal lives." I am pretty sure that doesn't include being blatantly dishonest with state government, then crying "persecution!" when you get caught.