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[Chad Fairbanks]

IGRA (Indian Gaming Regulatory Act } requires that all revenues from tribal gaming operations be used solely for governmental or charitable purposes. Much like state governments determine the use of lottery revenues tribal governments determine how gaming proceeds are to be spent. Indian tribes are using gaming revenue to build houses, schools, roads and sewer and water systems; to fund the health care and education for their people; and to develop a strong, diverse economic base for the future.

All Indian people pay federal income, FICA and social security taxes. Only the small percentage of Indians who live and work on their own federally recognized reservations – not unlike soldiers and their families living on military installations – are exempt from paying state income and property taxes. However, they still pay taxes such as sales and all other special and excise taxes.

According to the National Indian Gaming Commission, Tribal government gaming operations generated 12.7 billion-dollars in revenue in 2001. Tribal government gaming creates jobs, increases economic activity and generates tax revenue both on and off the reservation. Consider the following: in San Diego county alone, tribal gaming has been responsible for the creation of more than 5,000 well-paying jobs, with a payroll of $44 million per year (and the associated payroll taxes and employee income taxes).

[PA Engineer]

What you said. Bump.

[Right Wing Professor]

Maybe you are only repeating what you have heard. Maybe you only know what is voiced in the media.

And maybe I've seen for myself.

[Osage Orange]

You wrote:

"And maybe I've seen for myself."

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So...are you saying that you aren't open to being possibly short-sighted in your fact finding? Is it not possible that you don't have a large enough sample size? Is it not possible that your brush stroke was too large?

I'm not looking for an argument....I'm just wondering.

FWIW-