I’ve never understood how Indian reservations are allowed to have gambling, when it’s illegal for the rest of us to run that type of business. Sounds like affirmative action, to let a specific group do things that are disallowed to others.
And you forgot the tax free cigarettes. Sounds more like payback for fire water and disease infested blankets.
Indian lands are sovereign entities. That’s why
I have no use for them.
They lobbied for the smoking ban in Michigan bars but got a loophole for themselves by virtue of having the 10,000 square feet of floor space to set aside a smoking area. I don’t doubt the indian casinos were already exempt from everybody else’s law anyway.
Because Indian Nations are landlocked nations within a nation, as a product of various treaties between the Tribes and the federal government. The feds and states have very little say as to what goes on in a reservation.
At first glance, it seems to be more about Indians having supreme sovereignty over their tribal lands than their being granted special status.
Although, in this case, the casino is not on tribal land. So, I don’t understand the decision, but then I also haven’t yet read it.
This will be a very hot issue. Insurance companies are starting to set up on the reservations and writing health insurance policies that don’t contain the abortion mandates. A lot of churches have already bought the policies.
The sovereign status of the reservations is very subversive to the central government. FBI, ATF, BLM, have no jurisdiction there. Reservations have their own police forces and governance. I’m pleased with this decision.
***I’ve never understood how Indian reservations are allowed to have gambling, when it’s illegal for the rest of us to run that type of business.****
Wonder if they can sell 30 round magazines in Cali or Colo reservations? What about “assault” rifles in the same places?
“I’ve never understood how Indian reservations are allowed to have gambling, when it’s illegal for the rest of us”
The rest of us don’t live on sovereign territories. The Indians have basically their own countries. Good for them and hopefully they will continue to be able to fund themselves with casinos that we can all go to. At least this kind of reparation is fun. :-)
It's all based on the legal fiction that they are still somehow soverign 'nations', Personally, I'm of the opinon that if you're going to support this particular legal fiction, then the citizens of this 'nation' shouldn't have any say in American politics. Similarly, those folk shouldn't be able to get welfare or similar government handouts.
Yeah, I'm sure we could give them MFN trading status, but I'm also sure there are other burdens of being their own 'nation' that they aren't having to bear.
In reality, most of them were AA training grounds for most of their history. In hindsight, the US Govt should have required complete assimilation of the various tribes into US culture. I believe that it would have been best for their people.