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Rep. Martin Meehan, D-Mass., meanwhile, is drafting legislation to prohibit Internet sales to minors and require that cyberstores be licensed in every state in which they do business. Tobacco dealers dispute evidence that higher taxes discourage smoking. They say the tax burden marlboro cigarettes online only shifts dependence to low-cost brands and out-of-state vendors. "It's not people giving up the habit," said Joshua Sanders of the Ohio Council of Retail Merchants. "They're just going somewhere else."
State Assemblyman Chris Ortloff, a Plattsburgh Republican, noted that the state has tried unsuccessfully for years to collect the Indian taxes, despite rulings in non-Indian courts that the state is entitled to the money. The state's Indian nations regard themselves as sovereign and marlboro cigarettes online not subject to those rulings."We haven't the ability _ we haven't the time to sustain continued court challenges," Ortloff said. "We haven't the guts to challenge Indian sovereignty."Ortloff added that "we have no reasonable expectation of ever collecting a cent" of the taxes on transactions on Indian marlboro cigarettes online land to non-Indians.Even before the Legislature's budget bills were headed to Pataki's desk for possible vetoes, tribal officials and vendors were gearing up to fight the latest state attempt to tax their transactions.Seneca Nation of Indians President Rickey Armstrong Sr. said that ultimately, he believed "New York state's elected leaders won't make a decision that infringes on the right of Indian nations to self govern on any issues, including commerce." Back in April, leaders of the Seneca, Mohawk, Oneida and Cayuga nations re-established an marlboro cigarettes online Iroquois Tax Coalition to fight state attempts to tax tribal commerce.Indian merchants were no more receptive to renewed state interest in taxing their transactions than their tribal leaders are.

Neville Spring, owner of "The Rez" on the Tonawanda reserve near Buffalo, contended that "New York state is using Indians as scapegoats" to help cover New York's $12 billion revenue shortfall."I'm not going to sit here and collect taxes for New York state," said Wilie Parry, owner of Wolf's Run on the Seneca's Cattaraugus Reservation in Irving. "I think marlboro cigarettes online they're going to end up with worse problems than they did in '97."Pataki's skepticism at the prospects of collecting the Indian taxes is borne of experience. His marlboro cigarettes online administration tried to tax Indian tobacco and motor fuel sales in his first three years as governor, only to encounter marlboro cigarettes online stiff resistance and the threat marlboro cigarettes online of violence. He quietly dropped the effort in 1997.State Assemblywoman Nancy Calhoun, an Orange County Republican, noted that the most recent attempt to collect Indian taxes in New York resulted in a "tremendous outbreak of war and marlboro cigarettes online opposition."Still, non-Indian merchants have marlboro cigarettes online continued to push the collection of Indian taxes as an issue of fairness. Because they are not marlboro cigarettes online charging state taxes on their transactions, Indian vendors can sell cigarettes at $15-$20 less per carton and gasoline at 5 cents-20 cents less per gallon than nearby non-Indian businessmen, said James Calvin of the state Association of Convenience Stores.