Governor Deval Patrick’s administration and the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe are in “active conversations” over a new agreement on a tribal casino to replace an earlier deal rejected by the federal government for being unfavorable to the tribe.
But negotiators have a difficult needle to thread: They must craft an agreement more generous to the Mashpee that still can win support from the state Legislature, which must approve the deal, known as a compact. The Mashpee want to develop a tribal casino in Taunton.
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Let the Indians fight it out with Deeeval and his Demomob. The state should retract any decision related to a casino in Greater Boston. Two casinos, one near Cape Cod, the other in the Berkshires, is plenty for a state the size of Massachusetts, even though it is run almost exclusively by a mob of Demohacks = one of whom wants a casino memorializing his own personal family.
It's amazing that the Federal government is still treating American Indians like children. Aren't they able to make their own decisions?
What's even more disturbing is that the Mashpee Wampanoags don't seem to mind being treated that way. Maybe they deserve it.
I remain opposed to expanded gambling in this State as a tax on the most vulnerable (and, too often, on their employers or families); instead we should seek Federal authority to collect a modest daily excise tax on Massachusetts registration plates that appear in the Mohegan Sun parking lot.
(#2) Given expanded gambling, however, Massachusetts should refuse to be suckered on this deal. Congress, given sufficient nudging by our own Congrssional delegation, has the authority to overrule the Administration and ratify a deal negotiated in good faith. How about it, Massachusetts Congress-people?