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by Wyoming Liberty Group Staff Education choice is vital to growing and developing Wyoming as a state. Wyoming needs a strong, student-centered education system to move forward. Many of the state legislators understand this, but why is there such little progress in education freedom? Most arguments you hear are weak excuses, such as the case with t...



 

 



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by Wyoming Liberty Group Staff The bankruptcy of Blackjewel LLC on July 1st, 2019, led to the closure of their operations in Wyoming at the Bella Ayr and Eagle Butte mines. Around 600 miners were put out of work. These mines generate around $30.4 million1 a year in severance taxes (tax on minerals taken from the ground), and about $15.2 million2 a ...



 

 



by Wyoming Liberty Group Staff On Tuesday, July 9th, Rep. Jerry Obermueller (R - Casper) presented an updated version of a bill known in the Spring 2019 legislative session as The National Retail Fairness Act. This bill presented to the Revenue Committee, is now being called National Corporate Tax Recapture, and, like the previous version, it propo...

 

 



by Wyoming Liberty Group Staff If a business is not taxed or regulated, does it exist? This is not just a question for practitioners of empirical ontology, but one that has real-world meaning in Wyoming today. Explains the Casper Star Tribune: Since the idea first appeared in the Legislature last year, regulated gambling was recognized by many to b...

 

 



by Wyoming Liberty Group Staff We have repeatedly warned against raising taxes in Wyoming. I have also warned that any attempt to "reform" our tax system without prior structural reforms to spending will result in tax hikes. Since the political conversation still trends in the direction of such reforms, it is time to revisit the last of these two w...

 

 



Don't miss the first episode of our brand new podcast "Liberty Talk." In this first episode staff members Evan Blauser and Philip Baron take a hard look at Wyoming Medicaid funding in special education.

 

 



by Wyoming Liberty Group Staff As Wyoming Liberty Group policy analyst Austin Hein recently explained in an excellent white paper, corporate welfare – also known as economic development – distorts investments and other use of economic resources. One of Hein's most important contributions is to explain, using Austrian economic theory, how programs s...

 

 



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by Wyoming Liberty Group Staff We hear a lot about the gender pay gap in our state. This non-issue keeps coming back, as we noted back in February, despite the fact that it is mostly a matter of statistical mythology. Last year I debunked the Department of Workforce Studies report on the issue, explaining that the DWS appeared to have created the p...



 

 



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by Wyoming Liberty Group Staff On May 10 Wyoming News Now reported: According to Verizon, Cheyenne has been voted one of the best places nationwide to start a new business. Ranking in at #6, it is the only state capital to break the top 10. Sounds good, doesn't it? We all want Cheyenne to be a good place to start a business – in fact, we all want W...



 

 



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by Wyoming Liberty Group Staff Adjusted for inflation, the Wyoming economy was ten percent smaller in 2018 than it was in 2008, right when the Great Recession started. For every $100 of income, production and sales in our state in 2008, there is only $90 left now. Last year's minimal growth of 0.29 percent, which came on the heals of 0.48 percent i...



 

 



 

 

 

 

 

 









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**Wyoming Liberty Group**  
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