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If it helps your guilt any stop by one a them 400 Indian gaming establishments in the United States and watch them print money. They are generating $18.5B on their tax free reservations.

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Taxation of Tribal Government Gaming
Just like local, state and federal governments, tribal governments are not taxed on the revenue they generate. Rather, their duty is to provide healthcare, education and social programs on the reservation, the same basic services that other governments are charged with providing. Revenues earned on the reservation help to support and build infrastructure such as housing, electricity, water and other basic services.

The federal government is responsible, along with tribal governments, for the health, education and welfare of Indian people, just as it shares responsibility with state governments, for the health, education and welfare of the citizens of each state. If the IRS taxed tribal gaming income, it would only mean that the burden for providing tribal government programs that the gaming revenues provide would be shifted to the federal government and all U.S. taxpayers.

If tribal members live on the Pechanga reservation, they pay no state income tax. Individual Pechanga tribal members pay federal income tax. Pechanga tribal members living off the reservation also pay all of the same taxes as other California residents.
Just as the federal government does not tax state government lottery income, it does not tax tribal government gaming income.

Paying Federal Taxes— and State Taxes, too.
Like every other United States citizen, individual Indian people are subject to federal income tax on all income, no matter how it is earned. If Indian people receive income from gaming because of tribal membership, that income is fully taxable. Indian people are very often subject to state income tax too, depending on whether they live on or off a reservation, and whether the source of the income is tribal or not. Tribal employers pay all required Federal and State Employer taxes.

Reservations: Federal Lands Held in Trust
State and local governments have no taxing authority over federal land, whether military bases, national parks, forests or other lands, such as Indian reservations. Indian reservations are federal lands held in trust for Indian Nations governed by tribal governments, in accordance with applicable federal law.

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ORIGINAL: zephyroftheNorth

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ORIGINAL: Underumam

I'm feeling a bit grinchy tonight myself...lol.

Could you steal winter instead of Chritmas?..........please?

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ORIGINAL: kiwisub12

European adaptation of celebrating bringing home the harvest - as in, we get to eat this winter instead of starving to death = Thanksgiving.

As for stealing the land from the "Native Americans" - I hate to point it out to you, OP, but the Indians are or were squatters, wandering down from Canada where they illegally immigrated from Siberia. There are no native anythings, they are all immigrants - from Africa, so does that make us all African-Americans, or African-New Zealanders, or what ever your place of birth happens to be?

Ohg yeah, and lest we forget - there was plenty of lust for power, land and wimmins going on in the Indian nations. They are and were no better or no worse than white eyes.

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ORIGINAL: Aneirin

Mind, it is good that the US has reservations with different rules, for anywhere else or even anyone else, the conquered people would have to assimilate or be wiped out.

If it were not for the settling and invading white people, in time, who would be the principal people, for was it not true that even they warred amongst themselves for supremacy, and there land holding, the rights of hunters. Could it be, and it pains me to say this, that the white invader were just another tribe that achieved supremacy through force of numbers and superior weaponr, that and the ability to lie without conscience.

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ORIGINAL: Underumam

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ORIGINAL: zephyroftheNorth

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ORIGINAL: Underumam

I'm feeling a bit grinchy tonight myself...lol.

Could you steal winter instead of Chritmas?..........please?

lol. I'm sorry hon, but you'll have to ask Lockit if I'm allowed to do that.....

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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

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If it helps your guilt any stop by one a them 400 Indian gaming establishments in the United States and watch them print money. They are generating $18.5B on their tax free reservations.

Not exactly got your facts straight.

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Taxation of Tribal Government Gaming
Just like local, state and federal governments, tribal governments are not taxed on the revenue they generate. Rather, their duty is to provide healthcare, education and social programs on the reservation, the same basic services that other governments are charged with providing. Revenues earned on the reservation help to support and build infrastructure such as housing, electricity, water and other basic services.

The federal government is responsible, along with tribal governments, for the health, education and welfare of Indian people, just as it shares responsibility with state governments, for the health, education and welfare of the citizens of each state. If the IRS taxed tribal gaming income, it would only mean that the burden for providing tribal government programs that the gaming revenues provide would be shifted to the federal government and all U.S. taxpayers.

If tribal members live on the Pechanga reservation, they pay no state income tax. Individual Pechanga tribal members pay federal income tax. Pechanga tribal members living off the reservation also pay all of the same taxes as other California residents.
Just as the federal government does not tax state government lottery income, it does not tax tribal government gaming income.

Paying Federal Taxes— and State Taxes, too.
Like every other United States citizen, individual Indian people are subject to federal income tax on all income, no matter how it is earned. If Indian people receive income from gaming because of tribal membership, that income is fully taxable. Indian people are very often subject to state income tax too, depending on whether they live on or off a reservation, and whether the source of the income is tribal or not. Tribal employers pay all required Federal and State Employer taxes.

Reservations: Federal Lands Held in Trust
State and local governments have no taxing authority over federal land, whether military bases, national parks, forests or other lands, such as Indian reservations. Indian reservations are federal lands held in trust for Indian Nations governed by tribal governments, in accordance with applicable federal law.

http://www.pechanga-nsn.gov/page?pageId=51

Seems like they do pay alot of taxes.

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ORIGINAL: Termyn8or

OK, suppose this.

China's economy improves to the point where they are the preeminent world power. They come to the US and with the weapons and the manpower they just take over the US. We now live under Chinese law and there is not a dam thing we can do about it. Our rights are now defined by their whim.

But since might makes right, this is OK then right ?

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