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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SoonerP226" data-source="post: 3691201" data-attributes="member: 26737">Inflated or not, that $38M isn’t all coming from licensing, so your math doesn't work. For one thing, unless you're in Congress or the Teamsters, it's mathematically impossible for 10% of a population of 4M to be 19M.If the tribes are actually paying $2 each for the 200,000 licenses, that's $400,000 per year. Right now, there are about 3,000 Cherokees and Choctaws buying the licenses at $2/year, for a whopping $6,000. If they were paying the full $72/year, that'd be about $230,000. That seems like a lot, yeah? There's no guarantee that they'd convert all of those $2 license sales to $72 license sales, but even if we assume they did, it's all but guaranteed that the tribes wouldn't agree to buy that many licenses at full cost.My calculator says that $230,000 is still about $170,000 short of the $400,000 the tribes have (in theory) agreed to pay, so making tribal members pay the full cost would be a pretty significant net loss to ODWC.$170,000 in free money to ODWC is a pretty big reason to sell those $72 licenses for $2.Now, as noted earlier, this assumes that the tribes are actually obligated to pay for those licenses and that they are meeting those obligations. If they're only obligated, f'rinstance, to buy "up to" 200,000 licenses, and all ODWC gets is the revenues for the licenses that are actually sold, well, that's a terrible deal for ODWC, but I just can't see anybody up on Lincoln Boulevard agreeing to trade $230K for $6K.</blockquote>

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