Supporters said that higher tobacco taxes discourage kids from starting to smoke, and that non-smokers end up paying for smokers’ healthcare costs.
House advances bill to increase Wyoming’s tobacco taxes Read More »
Spoiler alert: The bill is also co-sponsored by Eli Bebout. Who says a Wyoming State Legislator can’t get a little something for himself?
Wyoming’s lack of an income tax means the rich get a free ride.
Rep. David Miller knows a state income tax would largely solve Wyoming’s revenue problems. But he’d rather shackle the state even more securely to boom-and-bust mining industries.
Miller: The solution is a state income tax (but…) Read More »
The deepest cuts in more than a decade couldn’t fix Wyoming’s “structural deficit.” When will lawmakers realize more cuts aren’t the answer?
Wyoming’s budget is the smallest it has been in 15 years. We still need new revenues. Read More »
The proposal was sponsored by Eli Bebout, who’s the president of both the Wyoming State Senate and Nucor Oil and Gas, LLC.
House Revenue Committee kills oil and gas tax break Read More »
The Senate’s cuts to education are apparently their way of paying for tax breaks for oil and gas companies.
Senate passes oil and gas tax break while Wyoming faces a budget crisis Read More »
The tax break would benefit oil company CEOs like the bill’s co-sponsor, Senate President Eli Bebout.
Senate panel can’t move fast enough to give oil industry a tax break Read More »
No bill to raise revenues survived the first week of the 2018 Legislative session. This means Wyoming will continue to suckle at the teat of the mineral industry, and lawmakers will have no tools to balance the budget other than further cuts.
Lawmakers bury tax reform chances, while the need for tax reform remains very alive Read More »
Wyoming lawmakers who want to cut public education talk like the state is so broke they simply have no option.
