Native American gaming is helping selected small tribes in America. The policy should be addressed to Native America collectively and a sharing mechanism should be developed. A sharing mechanism should be developed not through the BIA, but the Native Americans should put together a council, put together a formula so the very rich Shakopee reservation in Minnesota can somehow share money with their cousins, their own people, their own nation who happen to be on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota and are the poorest county in America. There should be some sharing mechanism, not a quality, but a sharing mechanism such as we build into our income tax law in the United States. Higher rates for richer people and so forth and the welfare mechanism there.
Sharing is an American value.
It's built into much of our governmental policy. Sharing also is an American Native value as Chairman Thomas so eloquently told us just a few minutes ago, sharing is a Native American value. I thinking sharing should be built into Native American gaming policy. Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. Thompson.