Author Archives: Sven Larson

GOP Budget: More Good News for Wyoming

Last week we reported that the corporate income tax cut proposed in the 2013 GOP budget could create as much as an extra 11,000 private-sector jobs in Wyoming. This is of course good news for Wyoming, and for the rest … Continue reading

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GOP Budget Would Boost Wyoming Economy

The 2013 GOP budget, released this week, is one of the best fiscal-policy documents that have come out of Congress since the 1996 welfare reform. Its strength lies partly in its concerted effort to rein in federal spending, partly in … Continue reading

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Arrested for Resisting Public Education

What price are we willing to pay to preserve the government’s monopoly on elementary education? The jury may still be out on the answer to that question, but an incident in a small Ohio village has given us a new … Continue reading

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Restrained Budget Gets C+

The governor has signed the 2013-14 biennium budget bill. We can note two things about the budget that are encouraging, and one thing that is not so encouraging. On the upside, this budget shows a healthy dose of spending restraint. … Continue reading

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Creeping Sales Tax Hike in Wyoming

This blog has reported on numerous occasions (see, e.g., here, here and here) about the creeping rise in state and local taxes around the country. Today we add Wyoming to this list. A bill currently being considered in the state legislature … Continue reading

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Sixth-Penny Sales Tax Would Kill Private-Sector Jobs

A bill that would give Wyoming voters a chance to vote yes or no to a sixth-penny sales tax is making its way through the legislature. If voters approve the increase, the revenue would go toward specific projects, such as … Continue reading

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School Choice Works: More Evidence from Milwaukee

The debate about school funding, and especially school construction in Wyoming is heating up. Increasingly onerous regulations from the federal government are a good reason to start a discussion in our state about how we should fund and organize our … Continue reading

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Budget Session Must Focus on Long Term Economy

The Joint Appropriations Committee (JAC) has done its preparations for the budget session, which starts on February 13, 2012. This is a good time to remind our legislators of the status of the Wyoming economy and what problems they really … Continue reading

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Bad GDP News is an Indictment of Obamanomics

The GDP data for 2011 is out. It is bad news for the American people. And it is scathing evidence that Obama’s and the Democrats’ big-government spending policies, including the ARRA “Stimulus bill”, have been a complete disaster and a … Continue reading

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Would You Trust Your Adversary With All This Power?

I normally don’t write about non-economic issues, and I am quite late commenting on the SOPA/PIPA internet regulation bills, but there is an economic tangent to them that is worth pointing out. Republicans who support these bills, with whatever good … Continue reading

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