Rory - So let me get this straight. You maintain that there is a difference between what the Tribes are doing and what the major corporations are doing? This must be your premise based on the comments you have made.... and your argument is tied to tax revenue???

So how does this differ from Boeing getting their billions in tax cuts by shmoozing the WA legislature and then moving their headquarters out of State? How does this relate to the point you are making?

How does your argument work for Microsoft outsourcing computer programing jobs to India and moving not only the tax revenue but moving the jobs too!

How does this relate to major corporations contracting with "help desk" companies in Pakistan so that when you call up your insurance company (or whatever) you have trouble understanding what the "service" person is saying let alone getting your problem resolved.

How does this relate to what many U.S. companies are doing with manufacturing jobs... moving them (and the jobs and the tax revenue) to Mexico or China or Indonesia? Have you been reading the papers about the problems created with big business moving all the manufacturing jobs out of country? Not to mention the huge trade gap... which is growing by leaps and bounds.

Even the Department of Fish and Wildlife is getting into the act. Who do you think processes your annual fishing/hunting license? No one in this State. They have contracted this out to some outfit in Oklahoma or somewhere. So do you think the business taxes and payroll taxes are coming back to WA somehow? A small point but you get my drift.

Tax revenue is flowing away from this State and this Country at an alarming rate. Why not give some of your thought process to the bigger problems and try and solve them? The Tribes are creating jobs in our area, not farming them out. And the tax picture is not nearly as bleak as you seem to suggest. Those Tribal jobs are generating cash flow in our communities and those dollars are going into the coffers of our towns, our cities, our counties, our State and yes, our federal government. If you know anything about economics, a job in our communities might make a dollar but that dollar turns around two or three times before the vaule has ended. Where are the taxes going from those jobs your bank just hired out to a company in Bangladesh?