greed and death wrote:Maurepas wrote:Well these guys were wanting to expand their market beyond their reservation, the reservation prospered from the casino and they wanted to tap into the Gulf Coast cause that's the emerging market for gambling in the Southeast.
I'm all for them not paying the tax in their own reservation, that's their reservation, but once they try to leave it, they need to pay the tax or not come at all.
Given there original land was about yeah big
I can give them a little break to expand. Besides you can always charge them for services and the like, since they do not pay taxes.
Yeah, yeah, but that doesn't mean whole lot now, when we legalized gambling on the Coast, we did it with a deal to make it beneficial to the Coast.
They don't want to deal with any of that. And they're not their ancestors, I have no problem recognizing the wrong that was done to them, but that was done in 1699 in Biloxi, that was a long time ago, and today we depend on that tax revenue that they didn't want to pay. And I, and the community didn't, want someone who isn't beneficial to us, possibly out-competing those that are already there, and are beneficial.
I'd be perfectly fine with them starting up around here, if they agreed to the same deal that the other ones did.
