With the recent news that the proposed LSU arena project could require a local sales tax “rebate,” it is abhorrent to think that we would give up such precious tax revenue at a time when we are cutting jobs elsewhere.
We refuse to pay for more staff for the district attorney’s office, yet we’ll fund a private company’s $400 million sports venue? We force our fiscally responsible library system to give up its hard-earned millage in support of a company whose former CEO could go to jail for corruption?…