A few politicians, the editor of the Star-Tribune and his chief surrogate have exercised their vocal cords and their penmanship with great vigor. Sin… - Mike Sullivan

In you deliberations on this issue I want you to keep in mind a letter I received from a 70 year-old man in Riverton. He wrote to explain that his social security check is his only source of income. His savings were spent battling the cancer which eventually took his wife's life. Last year he had to sell his car to pay his property tax. In the letter he threatens to burn his home to the ground rather than let the state take it for unpaid taxes.

Let us follow the lights of change and seize this opportunity to invest in our future in a new way. I acknowledge there is some risk in the investments I ask you to make, but I am convinced as I stand before you today that the greater danger is in doing nothing or failing to invest.

I am convinced that we must reduce our overdependence on mineral revenues and broaden our tax base or risk Wyoming slipping into a death spiral destine for oblivion.