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Sheridan Commission to Consider Ballot Measure to Continue County-Wide Lodging Tax
At their regular Tuesday meeting, Sheridan County’s Commissioners will consider a ballot proposition to continue the 2% County-Wide Lodging Tax.
They will also consider 1% General Purpose Excise Tax funding requests for FY2026-27.
Also on their agenda is a Resolution for the establishment of salaries for elected officials; a polling place location change; Election Districts and Precincts for the Primary and General Elections; the appointment of a Special Counsel; a Cooperative Agreement between the Clerk of District Court and the Wyoming Department of Family Services, Child Support Program; and the appointment of Ken Muller as viewer on a Vacation of property in the Town of Lodore.
The meeting will begin at 9 a.m. Tuesday in the Second Floor Board Room, #220, in the Sheridan County Courthouse Addition.
The meeting is open to the public.
Dennis Fox
May 4, 2026 at 3:32 pm
Here’s an idea for the GPET, One Percent Excess Tax requests: If the entity requesting tax money also takes in private donations (ie charity) then it Cannot Also receive tax-payer money.
They are either a private charity, and thus constitutionally prohibited from getting forced-taxation, or they are solely taxpayer funded.
They can’t have it both ways.
They can’t “double-dip” from both voluntary and forced funding sources.
Does the IRS force money out of us AND accept voluntary donations?
Is the Supreme Court paid by tax money AND charitable gifts?
That should be the first qualifying question to every entity asking for forced-tax money: Do you receive private donations? If the answer is YES, then no forced-tax money for you.
We blur the line between gov’t and society at our own peril.
And the funding method is the easiest way to separate the two.
Police, courts and basic infrastructure, funded by forced-taxation.
Everything else funded by voluntary means.
Dennis Fox
May 5, 2026 at 9:54 am
How about a ballot measure to liberate us from a county-wide lodging tax? Vote “YES” for lower taxes, no matter who they say pays them. In the end we all “pay” by inflicting higher taxes on each other.
Only lower taxes benefit everyone.
Lower taxes are always better.
Dennis Fox
May 5, 2026 at 4:50 pm
GPET funding Request:
Take the almost $40 million excess tax fund that the county has in reserves and divide it up between the 15,000 households in the county.
Return excess tax overpayment money to the tax-payers who paid it.
Wyoming is number 10 in the nation with excess cash reserves.
Our local and state gov’t are hoarding excess tax payments, while we the people suffer.
How big is your personal cash reserve?