1. How much tax revenue would those properties generate if they were privately owned?
2. Doesn’t this manifest an unfair competitive disadvantage for legitimate, private, rental property owners... who have to pay taxes and pass that CODB down?
3. If it’s legitimate for government to buy up profitable property/business - at what point does Colorado Springs become a Soviet Enterprise?
“Profitable Government”? Ronald Reagan must be rolling in his grave at the mere utterance of the idea.
Get into the real world. Read “Money Mountain” and learn our history. We are not Chicago!