INDIAN tribes are essentially wards of the Federal Government. Without federal recognition, tribes would be subject to a wide range of state and local taxes and regulation from which they are now exempt. It’s the Federal Government that protects Indian tribes’ enormously profitable gambling operations from any taxation. And it’s the feds that spend some $5 billion a year providing tribes with everything from health care to schools. So, it’s important for the tribes to know who their friends are, namely the Democrats. In fact, Indian tribes can be considered the Democrats’ model minority-utterly and completely dependent on the Federal Government, therefore eagerly solicitous for Democratic Party support and willing to pay to get it.
With nearly $1 million in contributions to campaigns for national office since 1991-85 per cent of it to the Democrats-it shouldn’t be surprising that Indian tribes have carved out their own niche in the Clinton fundraising scandals. According to a report in the
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