my question is why do they still exist? and if they exist why are the tax exempt? why do people who live on them receive federal grants? why do they just build casinos and do drugs legally all day? I don't see the point of it all.
I harbor no ill will towards native Americans, I just wish they would pay taxes like the rest of us and not get free hand outs. the problem with society in many cases is that the logic of "your ancestor hurt my ancestor and thus you owe me something" which I do not see as fair.
I'm from Irish decent, but I don't walk into Mcdonald's and ask for a free order of fries because my ancestors died of a potato famine, I had ancestors who were persecuted for their religious beliefs out of the united states but I don't hold that against those peoples decedents.
I think we should just make Indian reservations 10% smaller every year and just let the Natives be assimilated into American society, I don't see the need for the segregation.
I think if we ever want to obtain a global society we need to stop harboring ill will towards other people, Americans need to forgive the English, the Russians need to forgive a lot of people.. and so on, it just need to be in the past, I'm sorry about slavery and about manifest destiny and all of those things, and I would want to make them not happen again, but I am not indebted to anyone, I haven't owned a slave nor have I killed any native Americans and forced them off their land. I just want Americans to all pay taxes, to not get hand outs, and to be happy.




Contrary to popular belief, Native Americans pay Federal and State taxes. If you receive income, you pay Federal income tax.
The only ones who do not pay taxes are those who both live and work on the reservation. It has nothing to do with "your ancestor hurt my ancestor." It's because resrvations are not part of the State. They are sovereign lands. They have their own tribal government and their own laws regarding drug use, etc. Those laws only apply on the reservation.
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