[jessduntno]

“Is not running a Casino on a Reservation “self sustaining”?”

I don’t think that was the point I was making, but let me check...nope, it wasn’t....I was saying that if there are no property taxes paid and the tax burden is NOT the same as, say, Las Vegas is...than it is being subsidized...which is not “self sustaining” by any stretch...

[tubebender]

Every working day some government agency takes land by one means or another for a reserve, park street or whatever and tell me how much property taxes are paid on the land?

[fish hawk]

Look at the good side. Many of the Casino tribes are now building their own roads , hospitals, schools and etc. If not for the Casino that you white people hate, yet donate freely too, you would be picking up the tab for ALL the above. I never understand how people like you are still bitching about the Indians paying taxes while your own government is screwing you and making you buy the Vaseline. Time to move on to the important things in life. They came onto our reservation and built logging roads, then charge logging companies to come in a log it off. Then they tapped into our rivers and is sending that water down to the WHITE PEOPLE in the south of the state. They let gold miners come in and sluice our land off into the rivers and killed the salmon. And how many years of free tax exemptions would that be worth? Forever as far as I'm concerned.