California law gives tribes with state compacts the exclusive right to banked card games. So legalizing sports betting operated by non tribal entities would not violate existing tribal rights or compacts. What the tribes are concerned with is legalizing a new form of banked wagering.
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Almost 188 years ago on May 28, 1830, The Indian Removal Act was signed by President Andrew Jackson. The Removal Act paved the way for the forced expulsion of tens of thousands of American Indians from their land into the West in an event widely known as the "Trail of Tears," a forced resettlement of the Indian population.
Let's negotiate as honest brokers this time, and not betray their trust.
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Post passage of the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, they are U.S./State citizens with "Indian ancestry/race" entitled to no more and no less than every other non-Indian U.S./State citizen!
Greed takes over. We should consider what we are doing as a society.
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This is nothing more than a tax on the people who can least afford it. Don’t people have anything better to do than gamble?
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Well, maybe not. And who are you to ask anyway?
The Seminole casinos here in Florida are deplorable people, fighting tooth and nail against any attempt to stop dog racing. All other casinos that are not Seminole are now required to have dog racing to operate. That the Seminoles insist that dogs be harmed to ensure their advantage is disgusting.
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Everyone wants a piece of the pie. One day our country will have accurate statistics as to the devastation of gambling on the poorest and the emotionally ill members of our population. It will be an eye opener. Nothing productive is gained in our society as a result of gambling. Nothing.
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"Many moons ago, our forefathers decreed sports gambling was our right on our sacred land. The people's bond with nature and the sportsbook goes back in our nation's lore, to a time when we taught the pilgrim's how to plant maize and take the underdog if given seven points." Ah yes, the venerable history of an aggrieved people and their noble calling.
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Classic.
46% of the American people don’t have enough ready-cash on hand to cover an emergency expense of $400.
So naturally what they need and are going to get from state governments are vast increases in sports betting.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/05/25/the-shocking-numb...
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States that permit gambling should treat all casino and betting parlors the same regardless of the race or ethnicity of their owners. States are simply assuming the Mafia's traditional role of raking a percentage of the money lost by gamblers from casinos and betting parlors. A disproportionate percent of it will come from lower-income Americans, so in effect the states are simply recouping some of the money they spend on socials programs.
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Betting is an activity which generates numerous and significant negative externalities, in the parlance of economists. Just like the tobacco industry, the casino industry peddles a product, in this case, an experience, which is designed to be addicting. The entire atmosphere of a casino, including the free alcoholic beverages, is designed to separate the patron from their money and careful reason. How is this laudable? How is this honorable?
How many fortunes, so painstakingly created, have evaporated so very quickly in the spins of a wheel,the shuffling of decks and the flashing lights of slot machines? Just imagine if all the money given to casinos had been donated to non-profit charities. What a different America we would have!
It is has been noted that many Americans have few retirement savings, and that many aged Americans live on social security alone. Probability suggests that a good portion of the senior citizens gambling in casinos are not using discretionary income, but income essential to their retirement. This is so very tragic and sad.
Like any other product, any experience peddled by a casino, sports betting promises much. But at what cost? Most patrons of sports betting enterprises will lose money. And more than a handful of patrons will lose their self-respect, sanity, and all they hold dear, and all that makes this life dignified. Is this the America we want, and is this the America which fulfills our deepest and truest aspirations for the future?
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