To: ItsOurTimeNow
What good will collecting tax from Indian tribes do if the AIM is ALLEGEDLY to ban cigarettes "for the children"?
2 posted on
12/29/2003 9:19:12 AM PST by
cake_crumb
(UN Resolutions = Very Expensive, Very SCRATCHY Toilet Paper)
To: cake_crumb
That's what gets me. Do they honestly think that the average person doesn't see this nonsense as a revenue-generator only?
The whole Anti-Smoking crusade has nothing to do with curbing smoking...it's all about the Benjamins, baby.
3 posted on
12/29/2003 9:23:47 AM PST by
ItsOurTimeNow
(Criswell - "And remember, my friends, future events such as these will affect you in the future.")
To: cake_crumb
The tax is not on the tribe...it is on the purchaser of the smokes. The consumer pays the tax, whoever it is.
Here, the Cherokee collect sales tax AND in some cases a tribal levy.
If that is the agreement signed and it appears that it is from the article, then the collection of the tax by the state is correct. Not so sure about the police's tactic of raiding the place tho. This could have been handled much differently by getting a court ruling either before the shop opened or by refusing to remit the tax until a court ruled on it.
5 posted on
12/29/2003 10:12:21 AM PST by
Adder
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