re: Shreveport City Council votes to protect tax payers from Benson and the Pelicans

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Because Shreveport sees itself as needing a boost. Bossier is winning the fight for tax paying citizens in a big way.

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That. Bigtime. Shreveport has no chance in that fight anymore. Demographics are destiny for Shreveport. The growth of Bossier is huge. The things they've done like the Cyber Innovation Center / Research Park are bringing in a TON of actual good paying jobs. People are moving there to work for CSRA and the support companies that have moved in there and more are on the way. Shreveport can't compete with that.

Everything that Shreveport has that's good, like the Municipal and a few other cool things, can all be had while living in Bossier without the crime and decay.

The schools are MUCH better and they're building new one's every year to try to keep up with the massive growth and home building. The difference in a new Bossier school and one of the decaying ancient schools they're consolodating kids into in Shreveport might as well be Eloi and Morlocks. If you can't afford to put your kid in private school in Shreveport or they can't get into Magnet then you're screwed if you aren't in some select areas. By comparison those kinds of schools are pretty rare in Bossier areas where people are actually moving into.

And what really rubs salt in the wound is that the money per child spent in Caddo is enough to put them into a private school. But the education is definitely not, and they're still saying they dont have enough money. Only people that they are taxing for it though are home owners so they're not really making a compelling MOVE TO SHREVEPORT argument with that one.

Tim Brando said that support or rejection was along racial lines, except that it was wasn't.