This excerpt originally appeared in USA Today on November 19, 2012.

"Why are we giving a tax deduction for one specific tribe, which happens to be in one senator's state?" said Jason Fichtner, a senior research fellow at the free market-oriented Mercatus Center at George Mason University. "We could change this around, instead of giving the Indian tribe a tax benefit, we should just cut them a check. Then it's more transparency and it has to go through the appropriations process."