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To: RCW2001
"Eighty percent are Indian reservations," he says. "They never report anything to anybody."

Yeah, I can just picture some tax official from Ohio asking an Indian reservation, "Could we have a list of your customers?"

And the Indian reservation guy replies, "What's this 'We', Kemosabe?"

6 posted on 07/31/2002 8:01:09 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
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To: PJ-Comix

And the Indian reservation guy replies, "What's this 'We', Kemosabe?"

"We're from the government and we're here to help."

I wonder how far back in time/history that phrase originates.

14 posted on 07/31/2002 8:14:13 PM PDT by Zon
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To: PJ-Comix; Just another Joe; Gabz; Great Dane; Max McGarrity; Tumbleweed_Connection; red-dawg; ...
Smokers Fed Up With Prices Take to Cyberspace

"Like other Native American reservation-based operations, Smoke Signals offers smokes tax-free, a considerable discount over prices in many states that have recently upped cigarette taxes to pay for declining budget revenues."

"I'm very concerned about the selling of cigarettes online because of the ease that children can buy them," said Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., co-chair of the Congressional Internet Caucus. "That's an issue we need to address.""

Oh I'm SURE parents give their credit card to the kids so they can buy cigarettes over the net. Oh I'm sure!"

44 posted on 08/01/2002 1:03:58 AM PDT by SheLion
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