1 Gaming trumps taxes.

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Alabama lawmakers, facing a revenue shortfall of more than $260 million, got a surprise offer of assistance from an unlikely source: the Poarch Band of Creek Indians. In exchange for exclusive gambling privileges in the state and land for a fourth casino, the tribe would pay off nearly all of next year's budget * deficit. With the alternative fiscal fix being limited tax increases, the...

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