good points Ramon...The state already collects many taxes from one group and passes on the services or savings on to other groups. Hotel Motel taxes and such to pay for stadiums is one example. State lottery is another. Property taxes pay for schools and those taxes are collected from people who do not have kids in school.

Initiative I-892 is not my choice of the best way to lower property taxes. Spending reductions and deflation of state government would be a couple of other ways to lower taxes.

The unique twist on this initiative is that it will collect taxes from a monopoly that does not pay taxes for running a big business and making a profit in this state by diverting business away from their non tax paying operations to operations that will pay taxes. Yes I agree with Ramon that this bounty to lower property taxes is another form of tax or levy if you will.

When gamblers frequent non-tribal casinos they leave money behind and a bunch of it is collected by the state in the form of taxes. So the state already takes from gamblers and gives to others. Why not take taxes from ALL such businesses in a fair and equal manner?

I assume we can't tax indian country but we can compete with them AND pay our taxes too which the tribes do not do. The books are not open for all to see when it comes to tribeal casinos. Perhaps if we knew just how little goes back to help the average tribal member compared to what is siphoned off by the big shots and out of state gambling interests we would be so shocked we would all vote for I-892?

Just like the tribal take of fish and shellfish we have to accept the tribes accounting with no oversight or audit by anyone outside. That is really getting old.