Gaming tribes are rolling in moolah - approaching $20 billion a year in revenues - pay little in tax, and want to keep the gravy train on track. (Non-gaming tribes? Uh oh...)
They express their appreciation in the usual way to the pols who make this possible.
And loopholes in the campaign contribution limits help them out.
Thus
PoliticalMoneyLine, a nonpartisan campaign finance analyst, calculated that tribes funneled $25 million into political coffers from 2000 to 2005 thanks to this loophole...Indian donations are also harder to track than contributions from other groups. "Indian tribes don't need to form political action committees to give their money, and they don't need to identify any individuals as being responsible for the donations," said Jan W. Baran, a campaign finance lawyer in Washington...
PoliticalMoneyLine reported that the 212 federally recognized tribes that have given contributions have used nearly 2,000 different variations of their names in their filings. One tribe has used more than 75 names.
(Still less, in ending the larger anomaly that ultimately gives rise to such generosity: tribal sovereignty itself.)
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