The recent stories about creating opportunity zones fail to point out that this was created in a law by Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina to bring investment into distressed areas. How is Summit County distressed? The IRS has a series of papers and documents about opportunity zones.

I have quite a bit of experience in the world of opportunity zones being a fund manager for a Regulation D 506(c) real estate opportunity fund. These are also my credentials (since that seems to be the in thing when writing letters to the editor these days):

• I was ordained online.
• I am a lord in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
• I once thought about applying to clown college. No, seriously!
• I have been to Haiti, Kosovo and Somalia.

All joking aside, we need to look at the company-owned workforce camps like the ones the energy industry in Alaska uses. If the ski industry needs employee housing, let them factor those costs into lift tickets or charge $30 for a beer like the NFL, and don’t pass those expenses on to us.

Pay your own way!