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Wyoming lawmakers consider tax increases to ease deficits

CHEYENNE (AP) — A legislative committee’s task of finding new sources of revenue for Wyoming’s state government, which depends heavily on the boom-and-bust prone energy industry, includes looking at new taxes or increasing existing taxes, a co-chairman of the panel said.

The Legislature’s Joint Revenue Interim Committee was directed by legislative leadership to identify ways to raise new revenue i...