Why Buy the Land When Politicians are Cheaper?
By Tom Smith
Fortunately,
here's a bill Gray won't get to sign. This (outrageous) Indian Sacred Sites legislation basically would have allowed an Indian Tribe to put a hold on the development of any land that had something on it they considered sacred. It
almost passed. If you or I wanted to stop development on some bit of earth we liked, we would have to
buy the land. But this would not be fair to Indian tribes, because they are so poor. Oh wait! That doesn't work! They are absolutely rolling in gambling money! Tax-free gambling money! So what can the justification for this bill possibly have been? And now, it's too late, at least for a while. I guess they were crying up in Sacramento. What a heart-breaker.
posted by thomas at 10/12/2003 08:31:00 PM
