They need a separate nation to do that?
No, but just because they want to open Indian-run businesses doesn't automatically mean "Casinos", and they even said "not necessarily offer gaming". That was my point.
It will be just as splendiferous and glorious as the existing Tuscarora nation where I grew up, in Niagara County just outside of Niagara Falls.
The claim to fame of the New York operation is cheap gas. I bet they have the highest concentration of gas stations per resident in the world. (And they also sell gold and cigarettes, tax free or tax reduced of course).
Somehow all those greenbacks that the white eyes have been dropping on the res to avoid US and New York State taxes hasn't made the quality of the trailers on the res any better.
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