Columnist Bill Sniffin writes, "Oh, how bad could Interstate 80 get between Cheyenne and Laramie in the winter? Really bad. Some notable Wyomingites chimed in about winter driving in the wake of my column last week about winter roads in the Cowboy State."
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Wyoming residents can afford to pay more in taxes, argues an analysis by the Laramie County Community Collegeâs Center for Business and Economic Analysis, citing the stateâs already low tax burden and relatively inexpensive cost of living.
The analysis, drafted last December, was presented to the Joint Revenue Committee on May 11 as part of an interim discussion on the stateâs tax structure. It expands on a 2020 Legislative Service Office study that compared Wyomingâs median tax rates to those in surrounding states like Nebraska, Montana and the Dakotas.
That study found Wyoming could generate more than $800 million in new revenues per year without hurting its competitiveness with those other states, all of which have seen substantially higher population growth over the last decade.
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Lawmakers review tax structure again
May 13, 2021
CHEYENNE With Wyoming facing an annual funding shortfall worth roughly $300 million for its K-12 education system, lawmakers on the Joint Revenue Committee spent much of their meeting Monday reviewing how the state pays for its services, as well as how its economic lynchpins have changed over the past decade.
Wyoming, which has long relied on coal, oil and natural gas industries to pay the lion’s share of taxes in the state, has seen a substantial decline in revenues over the last decade.
From the 2013-14 biennium to the 2017-18 biennium, the state’s total operating revenues declin.