re: Deal to replace PMAC arena could require LSU land, new tax. Public can't see the details.

The sales tax is only on sales within that new entertainment district. Not the whole city parish or state

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Unsurprising that the public may have to foot some of the bill

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God forbid you approve a new tax for the greater good of the community to bring a modern arena and get big acts thus bringing money into the area.

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Unsurprising that the public may have to foot some of the bill. It's quite common when new arenas are built.

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The article tries you rile up the reader and make them be mad, and while the developer should be expected to foot the whole bill, it makes sense for taxes to pay for some of it if you sit back and think.

Improvements in infrastructure around the venue will benefit people that use the arena as well as those in that vicinity, overwhelmingly taxpayers.

A moderate infusion of taxpayer money (in a normal world) will only benefit the project. (This is Louisiana, so it's going to benefit somebody's brother-in-law, a few friends, and alot of TAF board members and politicians) and would be made back by taxes raised by the venue itself.

All in all, this is going to be a huge net positive, and the rest of it is just Louisiana politics at it's usual self. If you want something different, stop electing lawyers and their cronies to positions of power.