“Over the past four years, as natural gas prices have spiked and drillers have descended here on the nation's least-populous state, Wyoming has collected about $65 million a month more in energy taxes than the government can spend. The numbers, in their cumulative power and duration, are starting to change the state's vision of what it could be and how to get there.” ( New York Times, Thursday )
Part of that “vision” is pumping money into government schools
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” Public Interest or Private Interest?” by Dwight R. Lee