Wyoming Legislature postpones great tax debate

Wyoming’s Great Tax Debate will have to wait until the 21st Century.

To nobody’s surprise, Wyoming’s Legislature rolled through its 1999 General Session in record time, mainly because it deferred action on major tax and revenue issues until next year’s Budget Session.

By then, legislators will have final recommendations from the special Tax Reform 2000 Committee, as well as the findings of a Joint Legislative-Executive Study of Revenue and Expenditures in tackling a perennial imbalance between revenue and expenses.

This may be hard to fathom for readers in Colorado, where lawmakers currently are debating ways of refunding tax money to inhabitants. But…