why, if the oneida indians don't have to pay taxes do we have to?
104406
Because of a treaty with the government, many years ago, when most of their land was forcibly taken from them.
301114
I ask you this: Why should you get paid for something that you had nothing to do with?  Why should I end up having to pay more taxes because of something that I had nothing to do with.  You were not enslaved, so what makes you think you are entitled to anything?
122332
No, we pay taxes to the government.
939503
None. Too must money to be made in taxes and "settlement" payments.
287189
Taxes? Hippies don't pay taxes. They don't live in Texas either....
327244
we have this huge debt becuase the government says so, who do we owe this money to? ourselves!!! so really there is no debt, it is an excuse to get more taxes out of us!!!
537361
Only the illegal ones don't have to pay taxes.  They also get free medical care and if they claim to be over 65, they also get free social security checks.  Since they are undocumented and there is no way to prove they aren't 65, I suspect that most of them will be collecting it.
947984
Many legals from vietnam and other Asian countries got a 5 year free ride on taxes.\n\nIllegals don't pay taxes because they get paid under the table.
1060689
It does not matter how you split the hair! OUR Gov has "US" hooked into paying so many cork screwed things there is no citizen that can find who pays what where or how. WE can only know WHEN we pay! Every time we buy anything and April 15! 2 nations,Kuwait and Dubia, pay their people and do not tax them. In Kuwait you pay no rent, telephone, hospital, income tax, or utilities. There if your a citizen YOU get paid $58,000 y to boot! Alaska pays their people not taxes their residents! It's oil Iknow. Oil IS just 1 of thousands of commodities. With all the commodites in your state why aren't you getting paid? With all the resources of the Feds why aren't they paying 50 times what alaska pays?  Your being lied to! taxes are a smoke and mirror lie of the Gov.
1078091
Well if you think about it no.   Not even breathing cuz you have to pay taxes for everything and everywhere you go.
692019
glad the forefathers didnt see it that way...so you could be a citizen subject to taxes but no voteing rights? think thats why we had a revolution with england. taxation without representation.
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The Constitution does briefly mention the Indians and Indian tribes.\n\nArticle I, Section 2. (later superceded by the 14th amendment) states that non-taxed Indians would not be counted as part of the population of the states used to determine Congressional representation.\n\nArticle I, Sec. 8 grants Congress the power to regulate trade "with the Indian Tribes."\n\nThese sections seem to imply that Native American tribes were seen as politically independent entities.
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I watched only long enough to see it was about the 16th amendment not being legally ratified, and therefore we didn't have to pay income tax.  \n\nI refer you to this page to see a response.  The final rebuttal is at the bottom.  \nhttp://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_127.html
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I'm an American Indian, Ojibwe tribe.\nI've always said, my ancestors fought their wars and lost.\nTo the victor goes the spoils. \nI do not collect money from the government based on my nationality. That way I can teach my daughter to make her own way in life.\nI'm an American citizen; I'm American Indian. I'd rather live here than any other place in the world.
360749
they probably go to the purifying(cleaning water)facilities. if you didn't pay your taxes then your water could probably have human waste in it (things that belong in the toilet)
1051504
no because the US goverment is....pay your taxes now
150447
They are not required to pay, but they must file. From what I have seen, somehow they usually end up getting money back.