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1 year ago  ::  Jan 20, 2012 - 5:36PM #1
Tpaine
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Talk about misplaced priorities, Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear's proposed budget cuts $286 million from the 2012-13 state budget including a 6.4% cut to the higher education system and, due to this years low population growth estimate, in effect cuts of $50 million to the funding formula for grades K-12. However, there will be no cut to the $43 million in tax breaks granted to the builders of the Bible themed Ark Encounter amusment park nor to the $11 million to improve the highway interchange near the park. Link

Since when are tax breaks to a privately owned amusement park featuring a 500 foot by 75 foot replica of Noah's Ark more important than the education of the state's children?
"When it shall be said in any country in the world, my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want, the taxes are not oppressive; the rational world is my friend, because I am a friend of its happiness: When these things can be said, then may the country boast its constitution and its government." -- Thomas Paine: The Rights Of Man (1791)
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1 year ago  ::  Jan 20, 2012 - 6:02PM #2
mytmouse57
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Because the Ark replica IS education for the state's children. Wink
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1 year ago  ::  Jan 20, 2012 - 7:56PM #3
Tpaine
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Jan 20, 2012 -- 6:02PM, mytmouse57 wrote:


Because the Ark replica IS education for the state's children.



But, The Creation Museum is only 40 miles away and they even have a dinosaur kids can ride. Can't they get their education there and save the state money? Tongue Out

"When it shall be said in any country in the world, my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want, the taxes are not oppressive; the rational world is my friend, because I am a friend of its happiness: When these things can be said, then may the country boast its constitution and its government." -- Thomas Paine: The Rights Of Man (1791)
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1 year ago  ::  Jan 20, 2012 - 8:08PM #4
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My guess is that they're hoping the park will serve as a tourist trap, and that as such the state will be able to reap additional taxes (both sales and other) from the various tourists that pass on through.
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1 year ago  ::  Jan 20, 2012 - 8:49PM #5
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Jan 20, 2012 -- 8:08PM, Ironhold wrote:


My guess is that they're hoping the park will serve as a tourist trap, and that as such the state will be able to reap additional taxes (both sales and other) from the various tourists that pass on through.




Maybe they live too far from Disney World.




 
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1 year ago  ::  Jan 20, 2012 - 9:08PM #6
farragut
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Just across the river Cincinnati has an excellent science museum.
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1 year ago  ::  Jan 20, 2012 - 9:33PM #7
TemplarS
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This sort of thing- tax breaks and incentives for developers- is the norm.


This case has garnered attention only because- well, the development in question is so...unique.


Anyhow, these guys are pikers.  Here in NJ we've got this development project underway called Xanadu, sort of an amusement park/shopping mall- with tax breaks north of $200 million.  Like we don't have enough malls already in the state?
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1 year ago  ::  Jan 20, 2012 - 9:46PM #8
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Jan 20, 2012 -- 9:33PM, TemplarS wrote:


This sort of thing- tax breaks and incentives for developers- is the norm.


This case has garnered attention only because- well, the development in question is so...unique.


Anyhow, these guys are pikers.  Here in NJ we've got this development project underway called Xanadu, sort of an amusement park/shopping mall- with tax breaks north of $200 million.  Like we don't have enough malls already in the state?




;0 ...................................luv this one, Templar




 
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1 year ago  ::  Jan 20, 2012 - 9:57PM #9
REteach
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Alas, my poor granddaughter!

I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize what you heard was not what I meant...
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1 year ago  ::  Jan 20, 2012 - 10:00PM #10
farragut
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Kubla Khan Konstruction, neh?
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