Originally Posted By: shinything
And just how much do the tribes cost the tax payer every year?



Nothing.

Your average trailer park/ housing project's annual welfare/SSI/medicare tab costs taxpayers as much or more than any indian reservation.

The reason why is because reservations attract businesses looking to exploit the legal loopholes that reservations maintain, and the revenue goes into the tribal general fund, a small portion of which is re-distributed to tribal members as an annual per capita payment and taxed by the IRS as unearned income, an even much higher rate than that which comes out of a average paycheck. So in effect, many Indians pay higher taxes than average since the revenue is not only taxed 1st as business revenue, but then again as personal income.

The claim that Natives live high on the hog at the taxpayer's dime is ludicrous and baseless. Just ignorant vitriol spewed by the uninformed.