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California Gambling Age Indian Casino
by Jerry "Jet"
Whittaker
Aug
22, 2006
California gambling age
Indian casino
The gambling age has been abridged to 18 for the Indian
casinos and this has led to an issue in the state.
Indian casinos develop and their political sway augments
the debate over confines to Indian sovereignty has
become a burning issue in California politics. Query
remain on the amount Indian casinos should pay in state
and federal taxes and whether or not they should put up
with the cost of environmental clean up, crime
prevention and quality of life in their communities. The
recent discussion in the state has stated that several
Indian tribes in Florida and California began hoisting
revenues by operating bingo games offering larger prizes
than those allowed under state law and when Florida and
California made an effort to close tribal gaming
operations, tribes sued in federal court. The IGRA
(Indian gaming regulatory act) legislation necessitates
betting tribes to have compacts with their respective
state governments specifying the types of gaming
permitted on reservation lands.
As it has been lowered to
18, the gambling age and allowed the tribes to continue
using the video slot machines that the state and federal
governments had deemed illegal. Under conditions of the
proposal, tribal casinos would be self-regulated,
governed by a tribal-appointed gaming board. There would
be no direct state involvement in casino operations. The
plan set up a fund designed to compensate local
governments for their costs associated with casino
operations. It also owed two percent of casino net
profits to non-gaming ethnic group the people staying
there have protested with the raise in the taxes by the
Californian government. The Indian casinos have been
given traffic to the gambling of the tribes, as there is
a lot of betting being continued after the statement for
reduction.
It
gave huge blow when the issue of California gaming
continued to be controversial in 2005, with State
elected officials commencing new legislation to affect
changes on the industry. These were allowed when new
tribal-state compacts with nearly 60 tribes allowing
them to get bigger current gambling operations, allowing
Nevada-style gambling in California, legalizing video
slot machines, allowing casino employees to unionize.
This gave it a good period to the Indian tribal.
California Indians have become the largest contributor
to California political campaigns. Gaming has become so
rewarding that hundreds of Native Americans are pleading
the Bureau of Indian Affairs for gratitude of new
California tribes in order to buy land and build
casinos.
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