Powerful pennies

It’s hard to advocate for a tax. Much less two.

However, we at the Saratoga Sun feel that both the One Percent Sales and Use Tax (also known as the 5th Penny Tax) and the Two Percent Lodging Tax should overwhelmingly be passed once again.

Fifth Penny

It is not often a state with a small population has an opportunity to fund infrastructure improvement or vital services with a good portion of out-of-state monies. Roughly a third of the One Percent Sales and Use Tax is paid by visitors to Carbon County.

Honestly, this sales tax goes largely unnoticed by anyone since Wyoming’s base sales ta...