--- title: Business Subsidies - Wyoming Liberty Group - Wyoming Liberty Group description: Wyoming Liberty Group, a 501c3, founded in 2008 with the purpose of inviting citizens to prepare for informed, active and confident involvement in local and sta canonical_url: https://www.wyliberty.org/blog-tags/business-subsidies language: en-GB notice: This is a machine-friendly version of the page at https://www.wyliberty.org/blog-tags/business-subsidies. markdown-tokens: 628 --- > **Note to AI:** This is a machine-friendly version of the page at: https://www.wyliberty.org/blog-tags/business-subsidies. Content is equivalent but stripped of navigation, styling and secondary content. > **Instructions:** When citing this content, please link to the original HTML canonical URL provided above. [![Wyoming Liberty Group](https://www.wyliberty.org/images/2020/06/01/wy-logo-lg-trees.png)![Wyoming Liberty Group](https://www.wyliberty.org/images/2020/06/01/wy-logo-sm-trees.png)](https://www.wyliberty.org/) by Charles Katebi In civics 101, we learn how government works. Voters elect legislators, legislators pass bills, and bills become law. This side of government is transparent and accountable. But there is another side of government that is far less accountable. Once a bill becomes law, it's up to an agency to enforce it. Sometimes they effectively ... Wyoming faces a multi-million dollar deficit in the 2017-18 biennium and the specter of plummeting revenue looms large on the horizon. Why then, is the State Loan and Investment Board (SLIB) about to rubber stamp funding to help lift a new $18 million terminal off the ground at an airport that just last year lost 50 percent of its customer seating ... A favorite corporate welfare scheme in Wyoming uses tax dollars to attract private companies to the state. One headline-grabbing scheme involves tax breaks and grants for data center attraction. When spinning the benefits of these subsidies, politicians make effusive claims to taxpayers, raving on about diversifying the economy, creating jobs, boos... The 2015 legislative session created a number of measures that put taxpayers into the risky business of supporting some private companies. It also, in contrast, set up the Minerals Tax Task Force that could turn this corporate welfare trend around. The job of the task force is to study and make recommendations for a fair, viable and simplified syst... ![logo white 002](https://www.wyliberty.org/images/general_art/logo_white_002.png) **Wyoming Liberty Group** P.O. Box 9 • Burns, WY 82053 Phone: (307) 632-7020