Frederick Douglass

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them..." Frederick Douglass

Sunday, May 22, 2011

While Cutting Social Services, Kentucky Gives $43 Million Tax Break to Bible-Themed Amusement Park

A group of private investors and religious organizations is hoping to build a Bible-themed amusement park in Kentucky, complete with a full-size 500-foot-by-75-foot reproduction of Noah’s Ark, a Tower of Babel, and other biblical exhibits on a 800-acre campus outside of Williamstown, KY. Their effort got a shot in the arm yesterday when the state approved $43 million in tax breaks for the project. In addition to the tax incentives, approved unanimously by the state’s tourism board, taxpayers may have to pony up another $11 million to improve a highway interchange near the site.

http://www.alternet.org/story/151032/while_cutting_social_services%2C_kentucky_gives_%2443_million_tax_break_to_bible-themed_amusement_park?akid=6996.293630.nTEsRg&rd=1&t=30