Kentucky Governor to Science: Go F*** Yourself

[New Conglomerate]

The last good thing to come out of Kentucky was their fried chicken, damn that stuff is (finger lickn') good.

Except the Colonel was from Indiana.

Damn straight.

Popeye's is better, anyways.

[Wikkiwallana]

For the same reason homeowners in Atlantic City had their houses yanked from under them with Eminent Domain to build more condos/casinos.

Cos they make money.



It's disgusting, but there you go.

Fairly certain that seizing land under eminent domain for private development is illegal.

Not here in Tennessee, at least. Our state supreme court said it's ok if it the new use is more taxable.

[Wikkiwallana]

Seriously, stuff like this makes me embarrassed to be Christian -- and associated with crap like this.

Same here.

[Wikkiwallana]

Notice in states where Republicans are in charge they always try to reduce the education budget. Coincidence? Hardly.

Did you not see the (D) after his name?

It's quite disappointing really.

[Gauthier]

Notice in states where Republicans are in charge they always try to reduce the education budget. Coincidence? Hardly.

Did you not see the (D) after his name?

It's quite disappointing really.

There's actual difference between Republicans and Blue Dogs?

[Wikkiwallana]

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/01/20/407580/kentucky-gov-cuts-education-funding-while-preserving-tax-breaks-for-biblically-themed-amusement-park/?mobile=nc

Long story short, his proposed budget effectively cuts the education budget by $50 million while preserving almost that much in tax breaks to a theme park about the Bible, as well as an $11 million improvement to the highway for it. Words cannot express how angry this makes me. What the hell is he thinking?

This is why representative democracy is wrong we should use the direct model so we can stop dumbass decesikns such as this.

It's in the South. With direct democracy, it wouldn't just get tax breaks, it'd get funding.

[Greed and Death]

I dislike the subsidy... but it's nothing necessarily out of mode. Last year Kentucky spent about the same amount to improve highways around the Kentucky Speedway.

Eh, if the attraction is popular enough that there are traffic problems, expanding local infrastructure with that area in mind is not such a bad thing. Giving them tax breaks for being about jesus, on the other hand, is asinine.

Full stop.
They did not give them tax breaks for being about jesus.
They gave them tax breaks for being an amusement park.
Disney world gets tax breaks, by occasionally letting cattle graze on their land.

The new york yankees get tax breaks, from the federal govnerment because the new york lawyers who wrote the bonds found a tax loophole.

The aformentioned receive significantly more tax breaks from their local and even federal govnerment. The lack of bitching in the OP's source about this leaves me to conclude it is only because of the content the OP and his source are complaining.

[Wikkiwallana]

Eh, if the attraction is popular enough that there are traffic problems, expanding local infrastructure with that area in mind is not such a bad thing. Giving them tax breaks for being about jesus, on the other hand, is asinine.

Full stop.
They did not give them tax breaks for being about jesus.
They gave them tax breaks for being an amusement park.
Disney world gets tax breaks, by occasionally letting cattle graze on their land.

The new york yankees get tax breaks, from the federal govnerment because the new york lawyers who wrote the bonds found a tax loophole.

The aformentioned receive significantly more tax breaks from their local and even federal govnerment. The lack of bitching in the OP's source about this leaves me to conclude it is only because of the content the OP and his source are complaining.

I'm sorry that I can't personally review every single set of tax breaks in America. Would you like some cheese with that whine?

[Wikkiwallana]

Edited the OP to correct a mistake I made.

Also, some more info about the site in question:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ark_Encoun ... _Encounter

[Nightkill the Emperor]

He isn't thinking.

[Aeronos]

Edited the OP to correct a mistake I made.

Also, some more info about the site in question:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ark_Encoun ... _Encounter

Oh dear god, people are still taking Ken Ham and his creationist klan seriously? I thought this shit died after Kent Hovind tried the same but was indicted for tax fraud shortly after Dover...

[Wikkiwallana]

Edited the OP to correct a mistake I made.

Also, some more info about the site in question:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ark_Encoun ... _Encounter

Oh dear god, people are still taking Ken Ham and his creationist klan seriously? I thought this shit died after Kent Hovind tried the same but was indicted for tax fraud shortly after Dover...

Depressing, isn't it?

[Occupied Deutschland]

Democrat fights for subsidies/tax-breaks for religious theme park. ?
....
In Kentucky.
oooohhhhh...This is like one of those "Texas schoolchildren score negative on SAT" things isn't it? The answer to what the hell is wrong in the title itself. (No offense to Kentuckians but I mean...really?)

[Arkinesia]

The tax breaks are common for amusement parks, sporting arenas and the like, as are budget cuts for education this time of year. Getting made because one of the amusement parks has a theme you do not approve of is a waste of energy.
Fact of the matter is the govnerment sees benefit to encouraging recreational society.


To furhter my point.
http://goodmenproject.com/featured-cont ... irehouses/

Tax breaks received by the new york Yankees and Mets, while fire departments have received massive budget cuts.

OH MY GOD NEW YORK STATE HATES SCIENCE AND THEY ARE ALL BIBLE-THUMPING DICKHEADS

Seriously. The rhetoric in the OP is painful to read.

[New Chalcedon]

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/01/20/407580/kentucky-gov-cuts-education-funding-while-preserving-tax-breaks-for-biblically-themed-amusement-park/?mobile=nc

Long story short, his proposed budget effectively cuts the education budget by $50 million while preserving adding almost that much in tax breaks to a theme park about the Bible, as well as an $11 million improvement to the highway for it. Words cannot express how angry this makes me. What the hell is he thinking?

Edit: reread the article and corrected a misstatement in my post.

Not only is Steve Beshear a Democrat, he's a term-limited Democrat.

Why, then does he feel the need to kiss the creationists' arses?

[New England and The Maritimes]

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/01/20/407580/kentucky-gov-cuts-education-funding-while-preserving-tax-breaks-for-biblically-themed-amusement-park/?mobile=nc

Long story short, his proposed budget effectively cuts the education budget by $50 million while preserving adding almost that much in tax breaks to a theme park about the Bible, as well as an $11 million improvement to the highway for it. Words cannot express how angry this makes me. What the hell is he thinking?

Edit: reread the article and corrected a misstatement in my post.

Not only is Steve Beshear a Democrat, he's a term-limited Democrat.

Why, then does he feel the need to kiss the creationists' arses?

He's probably not much of a democrat. In Kentucky, and in a lot of the south, parties don't mean much. People vote the same way, so parties do the same thing.

[Greed and Death]

For the same reason homeowners in Atlantic City had their houses yanked from under them with Eminent Domain to build more condos/casinos.

Cos they make money.



It's disgusting, but there you go.

Fairly certain that seizing land under eminent domain for private development is illegal.

I agree with you, sadly the Supreme court does not.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelo_v._City_of_New_London

[New England and The Maritimes]

Fairly certain that seizing land under eminent domain for private development is illegal.

I agree with you, sadly the Supreme court does not.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelo_v._City_of_New_London

What an awful case. Love that tidbit at the end, that the city wound up forcing people out of their homes for a con artist whose plan fell through anyway.

[Greed and Death]

I agree with you, sadly the Supreme court does not.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelo_v._City_of_New_London

What an awful case. Love that tidbit at the end, that the city wound up forcing people out of their homes for a con artist whose plan fell through anyway.

Infringing on individual liberty, for community economic benefit leads to this result. It is one of the reasons I resist legislation for community economic benefit so greatly.

[New England and The Maritimes]

What an awful case. Love that tidbit at the end, that the city wound up forcing people out of their homes for a con artist whose plan fell through anyway.

Infringing on individual liberty, for community economic benefit leads to this result. It is one of the reasons I resist legislation for community economic benefit so greatly.

Something I agree with you on. Forcing someone to sell their land at market value so somebody else may or may not wind up building something there is absolute shit. It's one of the worst forms of tyranny that a normally free society seems willing to allow.

[Ravineworld]

This is the problem with the republicans: they are religious

[New England and The Maritimes]

This is the problem with the republicans: they are religious

1. He's a Democrat, 2. 88% of Americans are religious.

Religion is pretty awful, generally, but the religious tend to be an alright bunch on average.

[Ravineworld]

This is the problem with the republicans: they are religious

1. He's a Democrat, 2. 88% of Americans are religious.

Religion is pretty awful, generally, but the religious tend to be an alright bunch on average.

And that is the the problem with americans: 1. they are religious 2. they can't tell the difference between their two favorite parties

[Greed and Death]

Infringing on individual liberty, for community economic benefit leads to this result. It is one of the reasons I resist legislation for community economic benefit so greatly.

Something I agree with you on. Forcing someone to sell their land at market value so somebody else may or may not wind up building something there is absolute shit. It's one of the worst forms of tyranny that a normally free society seems willing to allow.

The state has a nasty habit of condemning the houses in question, if the evicted parties are of limited means, so they often get 50 cents on the dollar for their house. This also factors in no way the cost of moving to a new piece of land.

But beyond that it turns the concept of a government into a mechanical regulation. If outlawing this behavior increases GDP then outlaw it. That is the most dangerous threat to liberty a man faces today. It must be opposed at all cost.

[New Conglomerate]

1. He's a Democrat, 2. 88% of Americans are religious.

Religion is pretty awful, generally, but the religious tend to be an alright bunch on average.

And that is the the problem with americans: 1. they are religious 2. they can't tell the difference between their two favorite parties

1. If it helps, 50% of that 88% is lying.

2. The only people who can't tell the difference are the political hipsters. And they're too busy watching TYT and pretending to be edgy for it to matter.