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To: oceanperch
Anti-smoking political correctness lets them get away with it, but tax dollars are the real motivation here, IMO. The states are so ravenous for taxes that they just can't sit by and let the Indians sell all that tobacco without paying a penny in taxes to the state. Treaties a hundred years old mean nothing in the face of this untapped source of revenue.

I have to admit it - my sympathies are firmly on the side of the Indians, unless it can really be proven that they're funding terrorists. But when you consider that no one has been convicted, or even charged, then I think it's safe to say that it's all a big crock that the state cooked up as a pretext to harass and steal from the Indians.

Once the Indians agree to "share" some of this money with the state there will be no more raids and no more accusations of helping terrorists.

9 posted on 06/13/2004 5:05:59 AM PDT by Batrachian
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To: Batrachian

Our local smoke shop sells milk now for almost half the price a gallon and I thought about buying it there on the weeks I can't find a coupon.

Sheesh hate to see them raid milk.


10 posted on 06/13/2004 5:11:56 AM PDT by oceanperch ( 04 Bush.....He will continue to lead America with the Lords Blessing)
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To: Batrachian

Post 13 for you.


14 posted on 06/13/2004 5:30:05 AM PDT by Libertina (Reagan showed us what being a great president was all about. Thank you sir for bringing pride!)
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