James Calvin Quotations

We don't have any doubt that, in one way or another, the taxes on sales to non-Indians are going to be collected by New York. The question is: How soon?

We respect the right of Native American tribes to operate commercial enterprises, and the right of licensed distributors to supply them with legal products. But in conducting commerce with non-Native American consumers, everyone in the supply chain should play by the same rules, including collecting state and local taxes.

We have the governor once again using his delay tactics and dog-ate-my-homework excuses for not enforcing (the) law.

As far as we're concerned, any discussion of cigarette tax revenue in this budget ought to focus exclusively on collecting the taxes they've been letting escape all these years.