[FairOpinion]

What long term pain?

The tribes have not paid a cent to the state on their gambling revenue. Most states charge them 25% state tax.

It's time for them to pay their fair share (of only 15%) in California.

It was brilliant of Arnold to go after the tribal money -- note, that he was the only candidate of the three who did NOT take contributions from the Indian tribes.

[Torie]

It appears he is selling out on the cheap, and giving the Tribe's rip off a verisimilitude of respectability. (They need to be taxed like any other business in California, putting aside the noisome government sanctioned monopoly.) If so, I just say no. If I were in charge, the casinos would return to dust, and the land would return to its natural state. Can't you nostrils catch the noisomness of it all? I am not buying any of this BS. I may have been born at night, but not last night. I will not as a useful idiot be an enabler.

[Torie]

Actually, by the way, Davis did make the Caasinos pay some token amount, in exchange for allowing them to extend their tentacles onward and outward, to prey on the addicted. But I won't argue much that Davis sold out, because he did. He did it on the cheap, in exchange for SSSSS. What an asshole, what a shame.