Wyoming Legislative Panel Rejects Tax Proposals – 2018 Budget Session
Those proposals included a 1 percent tax on purchases on leisure and hospitality establishments, raising the state sales tax to fund school construction and maintenance and increase property tax assessment rates.
There are still tax proposals coming, but through individual bills. Keep calling and emailing your Representatives and Senators and tell them to stop dipping into your wallet just to continue spending. We are told that we must be grateful for the basket of goods, but who decides what is in the basket of goods and just maybe our idea of what we need and government’s idea of what we need are two different things. (Feb 1, 2018)
Tax increases are not a viable solution to offset Wyoming’s budget deficits for a variety of reasons. We need to “right-size” government and re-evaluate our spending priorities and programs, not increase taxes. We do not have a population base large enough, to tax enough, to offset the structural deficit. We should not further harm the economy by taking money that is circulating in the private sector to feed a bloated government. I will not ask Wyoming citizens to offset the overspending of the State by cutting their own personal budget in the form of increased fees and taxes.