People never learn, in socialism, there's no turkey, there's no gravy and no stores to buy those things at anyway.  

Most of us have no idea what really happened in the Plymouth Colony.  We're told that Thanksgiving Day was the pilgrims giving thanks to the Indians for saving their lives.  That's not even close to the truth.

According to the Wyoming Business Council, the free market is working against us.  This is an amazing perspective coming from the state agency who's goal is to increase business.

Of course, my answer is that the free market is not the problem, it's government intervention and playing around in private business.

While Josh Dorrell, the head of the WBC, and I have very different perspectives on business, this interview is one of the clearest examples of the two competing forces in our economy--government and private enterprise.  Dorrell thinks that government needs to be involved and I know that that's the problem.  This is a fascinating discussion.

Joining the program is former Rep Mark Jennings.

Never before heard audio from INSIDE a Wyoming County Commissioners meeting!  It very clearly tells you which legislators are working for you and which ones are working for lobbying organizations.

The Revenue Committee met last week and discussed a bill that would eliminate property taxes and replace them with an increased sales tax.  Of course, the usual suspects, the WCCA objected to it because it would decrease the amount of your money they could spend.  

During the discussion Sen Case moved to table the bill.  Why?  Because in his own words, he's in favor of new taxes.  In the past he has said that he's even in favor of an income tax.  But the EXCLUSIVE audio I have paints a very different picture as to why he wanted to table the bill.  I'd say it's unbelievable, but coming from him it's totally something he would say.

Governor Gordon claims that the role of government is to provide those services that individuals can't provide for themselves.  There's no end to this line of thinking.  It ends up with government giving your money to so-called non-profits; and it ends with budgets that are twice as big as a few years ago.

His budget is littered with a whole bunch of things he claims are 'essential."  Most of them are handouts and have nothing to do with the proper role of government.

The City of Sheridan Clerk claims that voters approved for local government to give their money away to private organizations.  Funny, the original ballot measure doesn't say anything about that!!

Secretary of State Chuck Gray joins the program to talk about Gordon removing public notice money for the 50% tax reduction ballot initiative.  Is the legislature black-listing emails from constituents?  Slithers and Dennis claim that legislators can go dig them out of the junk or quarantine file.  But who does this???  That and lots more!

The governor and his pals are claiming that the proposed budget is conservative--it's anything but that.  According to his own math, to do the same thing as last year, it will cost almost a billion dollars less.  Gordon wants to add another $1.9 Billion to it.  Just a reminder, there's only 586,000 people in Wyoming.  That's $19,000 for every man woman and child in the state.  If that weren't shocking enough, in four short years, Wyoming's budget has doubled.  It really is legalized theft..  

Margaret Byfield and Rep Hageman were the keynote speakers at WYGOP meeting held in Torrington over the weekend.  The topic of conversation was private property rights--something that we too often told isn't a concern in our state.  Harriet briefly discusses the Maude case in South Dakota and a couple in Wyoming.

Not that long ago, Josh Dorrell President of the Wyoming Business Council joined me in the studio.  There are a ton of projects that they are involved in across Wyoming--all of which involve your tax dollars.  There's lots of questions we should be asking: is that the proper roll of government; do these projects actually make money; do Wyoming Citizens even want to be involved in these projects?  We got to some of those.  

You see their logo all over the place in our state.  This is a great discussion with the guy behind them.

Replay of Cowboy State Politics Live November 13

The Democrats started the so called government shutdown.  Despite what they claimed, none of it was about subsidies for Obamacare.  That's clear now that the Senate has passed a continuing resolution.  Though, the continuing resolution only funds the government through January 30.  We may very well have another shutdown in a couple of months.

Rep Harriet Hageman joins me to discuss the shutdown and to give her take on what actually happened.  Also, because I couldn't resist, I asked her opinion of Mamdani's election in NY.