[Arec Barrwin]

Obama puts 1,000 Native Americans out of work for allowing Americans to save money.

[pnh102]

Weren’t Injuns a major 0bama voting bloc?

[grey_whiskers]

Multicultural anti-Obama Sarcasm Torpedo^TM ARMED. FIRE!!

"Black and White and Red All Over Man" speak with forked tongue.

Which makes him kind of yellow.

Cheers!

[Aria]

Well I wonder what Van (give them the wealth, give them the wealth) Jones thinks of this??

Maybe it won’t bother him since these Indians weren’t being GIVEN anything, they were actually earning it.

[TigersEye]

A ban on “trafficking” in a perfectly legal product!?! Isn’t that lovely?

[FormerACLUmember]

“The president of the United States invited Native American leaders to Washington D.C. in November and looked us in the eye as a sign of good faith in his pledge to protect federal treaties,” President Snyder said. “Now four months later, he has betrayed that promise. 

I deeply empathize with you, President Snyder. Obama looked us in the eye and made thousands of pledges, which 14 months later, he has systematically betrayed all of those endless promises.

You had federal treaties he violated.

We had a Constitution.

[FormerACLUmember]

Native Americans are/were a sizable democrat party voting bloc.

[dila813]

I got a solution, found a loop hole.

You are still permitted to grow tobacco for personal use, so basically you pay someone else to farm it for you then you just pay the Senaca Nation to turn them into cigaretts, since it all gets mixed in to the production process they can’t charge you tax because you own the tobacco already in the cigs.

I am sure there is a loop hole here that can be exploted for someone’s millionare benefit.

[Bad Jack Bauer]

[Othniel]

They can always open up a casino....

[BigCinBigD]

Me thinkum Great Oreo father in Washington speak with forked tongue...

[Arthur McGowan]

On the one hand, what the Indians were doing was legal, so I feel bad for them. On the other hand, they trusted Soetoro, so I don’t feel bad for them.

When people vote for a baby-killer, and he turns around and stabs them in the back, as baby-killers always do, it’s their own fault. They ignored the most basic, rudimentary justice by voting him in, so they have no beef.

And Soetoro keeps puffing away.

[Conservative Vermont Vet]

Yep it all started with Elliot Spitzer using tactics against the Credit Card Companies that would make Al Capone envious in order to browbeat them to stop allowing the use of CC to purchase Tobacco products online.

Then someone else, (not sure who) used similar threatening tactics to get Fex Ex and UPS to stop accepting shipment of Tobacco products.

Now this!

Boy did they keep this one under the radar as this is the 1st I've heard of it and I would not be surprised if it was introduced by someone from NY as they loose lots of money on taxes.

Guess I'll be stocking up over the next 90 days and thereafter, will have to travel to NY to get my deep discounts.

[Quiller]

The Native American cigarette "industry" is basically a tax dodge. Because they can buy cigarettes on which no taxes have been paid, the tribes can then sell the cigarettes on reservation land at much lower rates than the local stores off the reservation.

IIRC, it is a violation of most states' tax laws to buy reservation cigarettes and then transport them off the NA land -- but it is enforced only in some areas. In most, possession of cigarettes without the tax seal is a violation of the law. Maybe in some locations, allowances are made for people to bring untaxed cigarettes into the state, but I don't know of any personally.

So all-in-all (even though it is a naturally predictable that 0 would betray a promise), it's not such a bad thing to stop the trafficking in cigarettes. Sure, the tribes gain a chunk of change from tax dodgers, but what has that $330 mil done for the Seneca tribe? Many NA tribes benefit from their status to run casinos and sell cigarettes and other things that people can't legally buy in their state, but most evidence I've seen indicates that a lot of that money goes into only a few pockets.

[jeffDavis1861]

The article says U.S. Mail. Does that exclude FEDEX or UPS?

[RoadTest]

This is a Nazi Regime, with a National Socialist dictator. Just because it isn’t German doesn’t mean it isn’t Nazi.