When Dubai Was a “Democracy,” Late 1930s
By Phil Roberts Dubai once was an emerging constitutional monarchy and a democracy, but corrupt bribes made by oil brokers to the sheikh stamped it …
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Wyoming’s 1st SalesTax
When the first sales tax law in Wyoming was enacted in the mid-1930s, the merchants demanded that the amount of tax had to be noted …
Mineral Severance Taxes Were Hard to Impose–Don’t Give Away to Big Oil/Coal
By Phil Roberts, 1-9-2025 Passing any taxes on minerals in Wyoming has been extremely difficult over the years. Hard to think of any out-of-state centered …
“What TEAM?”
By Phil Roberts, Sept. 2, 2024 Fresh from a confused mix-up of my orders out of boot camp, i had just been assigned to the …