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Didn't read the thread?

MYTH: INDIAN PEOPLE DO NOT PAY TAXES.

FACT: INDIAN PEOPLE PAY ALL TAXES REQUIRED BY STATE AND FEDERAL LAW.

All Indian people pay federal income, FICA and social security taxes. Most Indians also pay state income and property taxes. Only the small percentage of Indians who live and work on federally recognized reservations - not unlike soldiers and their families living on military installations - are exempt from paying state income and property taxes. However, they still pay taxes such as sales and Federal Income tax.

Indian tribes are governments with responsibilities to their citizens, but tribes almost uniformly lack a tax base to support their governmental needs. Some tribes have found in gaming a means to not only provide jobs and economic activity on their reservations, but also a source of badly needed government revenue. As sovereign governments, tribes do not have to pay taxes on their revenues to any other governments. Do states pay taxes on their resources derived from gaming or from any other source? NO!

Glad to see you're such an Indian activist. I have business relationships with the Navajo Nation in Arizona. I am aware of their sovereignty and the other benefits they receive. Still, my question is, other states receive revenue from Indian gaming, why not California?

All earnings from Indian Gaming are not taxed at the local, state and federal levels. Maybe some employee paychecks from the casinos are, but not the hundreds of millions of dollars that the casino rakes in. Plus, the tribes don't have to declare other kinds of incomes or donations via outrageous loopholes and ambiguity regarding their member's being part US citizen and part citizen of a sovereign nation.

It's a scam and needs more oversight and laws protecting non-Indian citizen and their right to self-determination and self-government.