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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. ## Learn More ### Government Programs Sometimes we need government programs for preserving a collective good for the people. Government programs come with expansion of government, unintended consequences and regulations. We need to vet government programs because they also can create dependencies on services that can be filled in a less costly solutions. Stop pretending marijuana legalization will bring in a bounty of funding. Legal, emotional, and transparent cost analysis problems are ignored in favor of a stoner's vision of good things to come. We know this. Why are our Legislators ignoring the tangible problems and reality of costs to our communities? Whether or not federal legalization of marijuana happens, (the federal government is inviting criminals into our country daily) our State will have to realize legalization does not stop the growth of illegal operations. These criminals can hide behind inefficient and ambiguous laws and rights which increase prosecution costs and incarceration costs... OK Wyoming , state law and federal law are hide outs for sophisticated drug dealers, cartels and enemies wanting to dismantle our population with an addicted population so they can break us down. Legalizing Marijuana green lights criminal organizations that will end up costing (as it has already in CO) the state many millions of dollars that no tax... Why would a State like Wyoming want to initiate the problems of legalizing marijuana? The Hype in promoting it is less legal entanglement, less ambiguity with small-time users, and overreaching consequences of the reality of the cost of enforcement of unintended costs in policing, illegal drugs including marijuana bringing in criminals, and the gen... Prison, the armed services, Medicare and Medicaid are single payer healthcare systems- the government collects the taxes, sets the payment amounts and "reimburses" providers. The stated objective is to provide a health care yet the end result is rationing. Government is automatically an inefficient way to pay providers- first because it is inflexib... by Guest Comment Submission Having the Revenue Committee introduce a Medicaid Expansion bill into the legislature is like having your three-year-old do your grocery shopping. It's all ice cream, popsicles, and candy. Only to make the metaphor more accurate, your three-year-old goes out and finds fifty more toddlers who then spend all of your grocer... During the final moments of the Senate Labor, Health, and Social Services committee meeting this morning, some pro-MedEx folks raised questions about the facts surrounding Medicaid expansion in the state of Montana. For those who need the truth, here is an excellent research piece from Hayden Dublois. Hayden is a research analyst for FGA, he testif... GO BROKE AND DIE WAITING IN LINE In Montana, Medicaid spending grew from 17% to 26% of the overall budget (2015 to 2018, after expansion). These cost increases are consistent in every expansion state with available data, along with dramatically higher enrollment and cost than initial projections. Perhaps the former Montana speaker doesn't see that ... ![](https://wyliberty.org/images/easyblog_articles/1317/b2ap3_large_vest.jpg) by Wyoming Liberty Group Staff Earlier this year we saw the darkly funny story set overseas when a terrorist instructing his class on how to build and use a suicide belt, blew himself up and took his 21 pupils along with him. No one can predict exactly how many future innocent lives were saved by this academic mishap, but everyone agrees that we ar... PART I, WHAT IS MEDICAID? Chapter 1 A History of Medicaid Medicaid in the United States is a federal and state program created in 1965 that helps pay medical costs for some people with limited income and resources. Medicaid also offers benefits such as nursing home care and personal care services. Medicaid is the largest medical and health-re... ![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