Miccosukee tribe may be on hook for over $1 billion in gambling taxes

Miami Herald ^ | June 4-5, 2018 | DAVID OVALLE

[coloradan]

Those are voluntary, and, in any case, no worse (and probably better) than state-run lotteries.

[vette6387]

“No - their roots go back to the Heckawi Tribe.”

And there I thought it was that now extinct tribe, the Fugawis, whose disappearance caused the following phrase to be coined: “Where the Fugawi?”

[i_robot73]

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2. Because the Congress, which explicitly has both the power to tax, and the authority to govern relations with the Indian tribes, said so.
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2B: to tax....to pay for that which they are authorized, via A1S8.

Unlike Rights, the power to tax is not absolute and unlimited.