Break The Treaty, Break The Law
1 posted on
10/29/2003 3:26:16 PM PST by
SheLion
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Alert!!!
2 posted on
10/29/2003 3:26:50 PM PST by
SheLion
(Curiosity killed the cat BUT satisfaction brought her back!!!)
To: SheLion
Tax the tribes!
3 posted on
10/29/2003 3:28:45 PM PST by
TheAngryClam
(Don't blame me, I voted for McClintock.)
To: SheLion
Because its not fair.
Yeah, well, life sucks then you die. Deal with it.
4 posted on
10/29/2003 3:34:57 PM PST by
oh8eleven
To: SheLion
Tax the bums same as other Americans are. Booze, gasoline and ciggies should be taxed the same on reservations as they are on the outside.
5 posted on
10/29/2003 3:38:18 PM PST by
dennisw
(G_d is at war with Amalek for all generations)
To: Chad Fairbanks
Hey Chad over here.
They are at it again!
6 posted on
10/29/2003 3:40:25 PM PST by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Maybe I should cut back on the coffee...)
To: SheLion
Let's see, put a gas station on tribal land, gripe about remitting tax (90% or better is sales to non-tribal members) to state. Feds force state to build/maintain roads on tribal land, but state can't collect taxes on fuel from tribes...yeah, that's fair. Oh yeah, undercut the guy down the block, not on tribal land, by whatever the tax rate is, force him out of business and raise prices back up to what they would be with the tax included. Pocket the difference. Did I miss anything? We've been dealing with this crap in Idaho for years.
7 posted on
10/29/2003 3:43:51 PM PST by
IYAS9YAS
(Go Fast, Turn Left!)
To: SheLion
The US government ("us") made a treaty allowing them to retain some sovereignty. The Clinton administration under Babbitt stole the treaty trust funds from them and people on this forum raised hell about it. The Clinton administration was a treaty breaking administration and a trust fund stealing administration. It surprises me to see folks here advocate behaving in the same manner.
8 posted on
10/29/2003 3:45:24 PM PST by
Arkinsaw
To: SheLion
It's time to end the ridiculous fiction that Native Americans are citizens of mini-nations within the United States. It's been good for nobody; the reservations are either dirt-poor and decrepit, where there is no gambling, or corrupt and dependent on human decadence, where there is gambling. Take the reservation lands and property and distribute them to the members of the tribes; calculate the amortized monetary value of any remaining US government obligations, and share them likewise, and remove any special legal status from the tribes. If they want to continue to associate as tribal organizations, that's their right as free citizens of the United States.
To: SheLion
You may attempt to re-negotiate a treaty.
But breaking it is to break your word. Now I thought the days of the US Government breaking their word to the tribes was over.
Am I wrong?
To: SheLion
Anything (and I do mean damn near ANYTHING) that keeps MY money out of the greedy, grubby hands of the RINOs in Albany is Okey-dokey with me.
NY is crying foul now that they've forgotten Economics 101: when the price is too high, the consumers will either find a better deal or stop buying. Either way, the bozos here in New York are screwed.
They can try to shaft the Indian tribes, but all that will do is increase the REAL black market on cigs -- John Gotti, call your office!
I hope the Indians clean their clocks on this.
Regards,
To: SheLion
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68 posted on
10/29/2003 8:13:07 PM PST by
Petronski
(Living life in a minor key.)
To: SheLion
It's time the Indian Nation, whether in NY or elsewhere, stopped pretending they are not part of American society.
After all, the Indians are perfectly able to enjoy the bounty and protection offered by American society, by the American military, and they should be willing to pay taxes the same as everyone else.
If the Indians were still clinging to their old ways, living out in the country in a teepee and eating buffalo as a means of rejecting United States sovereignty, then maybe I could understand them trying to remain separate.
But this treaty business is simply a charade, an effort to keep all the casino profits and tobacco profits that, if they were any other ethnicity, they would have to pay.
152 posted on
11/02/2003 4:33:09 PM PST by
Edit35
To: SheLion
What gets me is that most people who are against breaking the treaty would also be in favor of breaking another treaty that was signed by the last president - the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
170 posted on
11/02/2003 5:04:30 PM PST by
BSunday
(I'm not the bad guy.)
To: SheLion
Tax the tribes for sure.
184 posted on
11/02/2003 5:27:33 PM PST by
A CA Guy
(God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
To: SheLion
bump for later reading
192 posted on
11/02/2003 6:04:02 PM PST by
CFC__VRWC
(AIDS, abortion, euthanasia - don't liberals just kill ya?)
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