As coal, oil and natural gas revenues decline, state legislators could have some hard decisions ahead, according to information generated by a strategic planning effort created by Gov. Mark Gordon.
A plan to expand Medicaid coverage to about 19,000 Wyoming residents won approval from a legislative committee on Tuesday.
Coal production in Wyoming has dropped by over 100 million tons in the past decade, and state Sen. Cale Case doesn’t think the downward slide is close to finished.
It is time for the state to study a possible increase in gasoline taxes, according to the co-chairman of the Legislature’s Revenue Committee.
A legislative committee is once again studying a proposal to impose an income tax on so-called “big box” stores.
The Wyoming Legislature’s Joint Revenue Committee met in Cheyenne on Monday. The panel, charged with reviewing Wyoming’s tax policy and finding ways to pay for state spending, drew a crowd.
