Joint Revenue Committee

Governor Mead quoted Wyoming's first governor. Francis E. Warren, on the dangers of spending either too much or too little money.

Without a personal or corporate income tax and with some of the lowest sales and property taxes in the nation, Wyoming is heavily reliant on energy industry taxes.

The proposal failed on an 8-2 vote Tuesday in Cheyenne after committee members concluded that the revenue raised from the tax wasn't worth the lawsuits that might challenge it.

Teton County school officials want the Wyoming Legislature to provide funding for School Resource Officers. The legislature's Joint Revenue Committee is endorsing a bill that would tighten Wyoming's property tax exemptions for charities...