Posted on 10/16/2004 7:33:11 PM PDT by nypokerface
If indians can run slots, I think anyone else should also be able to run them else it is certainly discrimination.
Now if they restricted the indian casinos' patronage to only indians, that would be different.
Tatankashit. It's the truth, which many people just can't handle.
FMCDH(BITS)
The Indians are ripping us off? Then, don't go in the dang casino.
>>The Indians are ripping us off? Then, don't go in the dang casino.>>
Perhaps what is eluded to here is the taxation issue. I don't know about California, but here in Washington state, Indians pay ZERO income taxes, federal or tax. There is an initiative on the ballot right now to charge them tax. I have to agree that the free ride is over for them.
Indians call it racist to pay taxes like the rest of us. Like the blacks call it racist to not give them bonus points in qualifying for jobs and education. Same thing.
Stop whining and be productive. THAT will make you equal.
Read no further than this to know this story is BS.
From what I read the con men are ripping the Indian casinos off.
What people do not realize is how much money the Casinos give to the surrounding communities. Here where we live they donated almost all the cost of a skate board park. And that money did not come with state strings attached.
I would much rather have the money spent here locally than go to Sacramento, be siphoned off in bureaucratic waste and then on a small portion of the original amount paid come dribbling back to the community.
As for going into the casion, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. But I agree with you. Noone every twisted my arm to go in.
I never owned a slave and feel no need to agree to reparations to modern day blacks (who, in turn, were never enslaved).
I also never bayoneted an Indian while forcing him to leave his home, so why should my tax dollars go to subsidize Indian casinos?
It's time to put all this (You're white....you're bad") garbage to rest.
In short, I agree with you. Their free ride should end. Now.
White men created a slave class of people when they gave them sympathy money (welfare) via LBJ. Now, whether they are black, hispanic or oriental, this class refuses to grow out because it is too easy to stay put.
Cries of racism confront anyone who wants to put the initiative back in the individual, and take it from governmental programs. Notoriously irresponsible, people teaching the next generation how to milk the system are worthy of summary deportation (rude... grab your shirt... you're outta here!).
The PC culture is power-hungry on the left and fearful of violence on the right. Such is the current swing of American tolerances.
If Indians in Cali can operate csinos on Indian land why can't they operate gun stores on Indian land that sell guns that can't be sold in the rest of the state!
MMM. OBoy. A skateboard park. Big money.
Now, how about discussing the costs to a community when you have casino gambling. You can start with: Higher crime rate - needing more police.
I invite additional commentary from folks who live in Atlantic City, anywhere in Nevada, and all those little towns in flyover country which have received casinos in the last fifteen or so years.
I was not aware that WA Indian casinos pay no tax. Now that I know, I'm going to have to think about this before posting an opinion.
I sense flames coming . . .
Indian tribes are sovereign nations by treaty.
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The man is not doing good PR for the party....
Why doesn't he just construct toll boths a few hundred yards from the reservations' borders?
Gambling is a tax on the poor and stupid. Thanks to the NEA there is no shortage of either.
But are they building decent housing, schools, and hospitals for their tribal communities?
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (news - web sites) has a warning for state voters: 'The Indians are ripping us off.' Schwarzenegger has taken up the line to convince them to reject a tribe-backed initiative on the November 2, 2004 ballot that would allow rapid expansion of American Indian casinos in the nation's most populous state and derail the governor's own effort to manage casino growth. Schwarzenegger is seen at the Republican National Convention in New York, August 31. Photo by Gary Hershorn/Reuters
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