{"id":48868,"date":"2014-12-11T10:41:30","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T17:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/11\/tax-incentives-of-the-lost-ark.html"},"modified":"2014-12-11T17:04:30","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T00:04:30","slug":"tax-incentives-of-the-lost-ark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/11\/tax-incentives-of-the-lost-ark.html","title":{"rendered":"Tax Incentives of the Lost Ark"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kentucky has reluctantly withdrawn $18 million in tax incentives from Ken Ham's planned Noah's Ark project. According to the state tourism secretary, "Based on various postings on the Answers in Genesis (AIG) and Ark Encounter websites, reports from Ark Encounter investor meetings and our correspondence, it is readily apparent that the project has evolved from a tourism attraction to an extension of AIG’s ministry that will no longer permit the Commonwealth to grant the project tourism development incentives"<\/p>\n

It was always a very thin pretense that Ark Encounter was not<\/i> going to be a means of ministry, but the project's reorganization and refusal to not discriminate in hiring based on religious considerations — something legit for a religious organization — shredded that pretense.<\/p>\n

If Ham and Answers in Genesis can get their ministry project constructed through private donations and investment, that is, of course, their prerogative. But they'll have to do it without taxpayer funding. And that's wholly appropriate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nThe Lost Ark: Kentucky will not grant tax incentives to Ark Encounter – Insider Louisville<\/a><\/span>
\nKentucky’s Tourism Arts & Heritage Cabinet Secretary Bob Stewart informed representatives of the proposed Ark Encounter tourist attraction today that their project will not be eligible for up to $18 million in tax incentives from the state, due to their … Continue reading →\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Kentucky has reluctantly withdrawn $18 million in tax incentives from Ken Ham's planned Noah's Ark project. According to the state tourism secretary, "Based on various postings on the Answers in Genesis (AIG) and Ark Encounter websites, reports from Ark Encounter investor meetings and our correspondence, it is readily apparent that the project has evolved from … Continue reading “Tax Incentives of the Lost Ark”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,109,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-church-state","category-religious-zanies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133884,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/18\/thou-shalt-not-pay-taxes-thou-canst-avoid.html","url_meta":{"origin":48868,"position":0},"title":"Thou Shalt Not Pay Taxes Thou Canst Avoid!","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 18-Jul-17 4:37pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The \"Ark Encounter\" creationist theme park has been an exercise in tax jiggery-pokery from Day 1. 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