SHE WON'T GO!
As if $40 Million from Governor Beshear and another $11 Million in road improvements weren’t enough, the Answers in Genesis/Creation Museum creationist theme park featuring a replica of Noah’s Ark replete with early-man’s best friend, the T-Rex (come to think of it, if I was a dinosaur I probably wouldn’t eat a 600 year old man either, but that’s another story) is now getting ridiculous new tax breaks from its chosen land:
The city of Williamstown in Grant County has agreed to give a biblically themed amusement park a property tax discount of 75 percent over the next 30 years.
Mayor Rick Skinner said the offer is laid out in a memorandum of agreement that will be followed by a formal tax-increment financing deal with Petersburg-based Ark Encounters LLC in coming months.
The tax deal is in addition to almost $200,000 given to the company by Grant County’s economic development arm as an enticement to keep the project located there, along with 100 acres of reduced-price land.
The property should eventually be worth $150 million, the HL’s most-excellent Linda Blackford goes on, so the county will collect just a quarter of taxes on those 800 acres over the next three decades.
This is actually a win-win as most property taxes in the city are used for the schools so now the schools can fall further behind and the dinosaur-peddlers can grow their not-exploitative-at-all economy. Pretty good deal, no?
In other good news, Mike Zovath, AiG’s reddish spokesperson, tells Blackford the Park’s raised 80% of its $150 Million goal.
Meanwhile at the Ark Encounter website (which shows they’ve raised just 1/8th of their “buy a plank” $25M fundraiser), Ken Ham tells us how state officials showed up at a Chamber of Commerce meeting and sang the religious institution’s praises:
At a recent Chamber of Commerce breakfast, three of our staff members heard a talk by the Commissioner of Tourism and Travel for the state of Kentucky—Mike Cooper. As Mike summarized the importance of tourism to the state, he not only highlighted the success of the Creation Museum as a big tourist draw, but he also said he looks to even bigger and better things through our next project, the Ark Encounter in Grant County, Kentucky.
G-d bless Kentucky, Steve Beshear’s legacy project is going to be awesome.
In fact, let’s just say it together: Our Gov is an awesome Gov.
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Yeah, but is any of this “goodness” “Smoking hot?” Are any of the wives “smoking hot?” Was Noah’s wife “smoking hot?”
There is a great smoking hole in the state where the intelligence of Grant County used to be. One suspects that the back-fill for that hole will be the unused brain cells of the Ark Park’s visitors.
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