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NY State plans to raise taxes on cigarettes, and wants to enforce sales tax on cigs sold at indian reservations. I remember when I was in high school in the early '90s, Pataki tried to do this, and there were Senecas burning tires on the Thruway and pelting state police cars with stones from overpasses. They *can't enforce* this on the reservations because the reservations are semi-autonomous and are not subject to state-imposed tax regulations!
http://money.cnn.com/2010/06/22/news...dex.htm?hpt=T2
To reinforce this contention:
http://www.onondaganation.org/news/2006/2006_0603.html
"The billboard was first painted in 1997, after violence erupted on the Onondaga territory over a cigarette and gas tax deal Pataki negotiated with Onondaga Nation chiefs and with traditional chiefs at other Indian territories in New York, said Joseph Heath, the Onondaga Nation's lawyer.
Indians opposed to the deal gathered by the billboard and burned tires along the highway. About 100 state troopers in full riot gear moved in with batons while the protesters brandished hockey sticks. Police arrested 24 people, including Andrew Jones.
Violence broke out on Indian nations in other parts of the state as well, and Pataki squashed the commerce pact with the Haudenosaunee chiefs.
After that, the state Legislature passed a law that required the New York to collect taxes on Indian sales of cigarettes and gas to non-Indian people. Pataki's tax department, however, has declined to collect the taxes."
http://money.cnn.com/2010/06/22/news...dex.htm?hpt=T2
To reinforce this contention:
http://www.onondaganation.org/news/2006/2006_0603.html
"The billboard was first painted in 1997, after violence erupted on the Onondaga territory over a cigarette and gas tax deal Pataki negotiated with Onondaga Nation chiefs and with traditional chiefs at other Indian territories in New York, said Joseph Heath, the Onondaga Nation's lawyer.
Indians opposed to the deal gathered by the billboard and burned tires along the highway. About 100 state troopers in full riot gear moved in with batons while the protesters brandished hockey sticks. Police arrested 24 people, including Andrew Jones.
Violence broke out on Indian nations in other parts of the state as well, and Pataki squashed the commerce pact with the Haudenosaunee chiefs.
After that, the state Legislature passed a law that required the New York to collect taxes on Indian sales of cigarettes and gas to non-Indian people. Pataki's tax department, however, has declined to collect the taxes."
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