--- title: Tax Hikes - Wyoming Liberty Group - Wyoming Liberty Group description: Wyoming Liberty Group, a 501c3, founded in 2008 with the purpose of inviting citizens to prepare for informed, active and confident involvement in local and sta canonical_url: https://wyliberty.org/blog-tags/tax-hikes?start=10 language: en-GB notice: This is a machine-friendly version of the page at https://wyliberty.org/blog-tags/tax-hikes?start=10. markdown-tokens: 629 --- > **Note to AI:** This is a machine-friendly version of the page at: https://wyliberty.org/blog-tags/tax-hikes?start=10. Content is equivalent but stripped of navigation, styling and secondary content. > **Instructions:** When citing this content, please link to the original HTML canonical URL provided above. [![Wyoming Liberty Group](https://wyliberty.org/images/2020/06/01/wy-logo-lg-trees.png)![Wyoming Liberty Group](https://wyliberty.org/images/2020/06/01/wy-logo-sm-trees.png)](https://wyliberty.org/) by Wyoming Liberty Group Staff TheWyomingProsperityProject.com Between the legislature, Governor Mead, the Wyoming Association of Municipalities and assorted local tax efforts, we as a state could easily be facing half a billion dollars in higher taxes. Half a billion dollars. This number represents a worst-case scenario, and until recently I thoug... CHEYENNE, WY: The Wyoming Liberty Group released its Taxpayer Protection poll question results today, showing that 65 percent of respondents are more likely to vote for a candidate who has signed a pledge promising to not raise state taxes. "The people of Wyoming are sensible so of course are more likely to vote for candidates who commit to voting ... We often point to the third-party payer problem as the cause of the explosion in health care costs. Insurers pay doctors who provide services to patients. This separation of payer and patient means the patient has little incentive to question the cost or even the quality of service. Now imagine what would happen if a big part of a state's spending ... In Wyoming, some politicians are looking high and low for ways to take your money, especially if they can make it look like someone else is slipping his hand into your pocket. One way that popped up during a recent Revenue Committee meeting is a tax on Internet retail sales. Proponents justify this tax grab in two ways. First, the need for more tax... ![logo white 002](https://wyliberty.org/images/general_art/logo_white_002.png) **Wyoming Liberty Group** P.O. Box 9 • Burns, WY 82053 Phone: (307) 632-7020