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Monday, November 6, 2006

Indian Tobacco Sales Could Lose Tax-Exempt Status


[Indian tribes are] being threatened by a federal lawsuit and by an expected push by a neighboring government, New York State, to end the longstanding practice of selling tax-free cigarettes to non-Indians on Indian reservations. (New York Times, Monday)

Taxes create warring classes of citizens.

FEE Timely Classic
The Power to Tax Is the Power to Destroy by Clarence B. Carson