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Well, I sure would hate to be the owner of the Holiday Inn or The Chateau who invested in our downtown area and now must compete with a tax dollar funded hotel a block or two away. In fact, the "free enterprise" hotels will be taxed and those dollars will go (in small part) to pay bonds that fund the competition. If they fail to pay taxes, they could go to jail.
I am about as excited by a city being in the hospitality business as I am a city being in the Internet business. Things like this should be left to the private sector IMO. First I would like to see clean water at high pressure at an affordable price before they "branch out". I won't even mention the smell of our Lucas wastewater plant in South Shreveport.
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