With regard to lack of proportionate ultra-wealthy taxation, extensive research shows that requiring more from multimillionaires will not prompt them to pack up and leave.6 This is likely more true in the rural West, with its captivating natural amenities. Thus, as fossil-fuel revenues in Wyoming continue to decline and the state desperately searches for new revenue to improve services such as education and technical skills training, politicians and community leaders would do well to reconsider their long-standing antipathy to tax revenue from the growing abundance of millionaire migrants—and
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