The great outdoors and the super tax-friendly policies in Wyoming are attracting a growing number of the ultra-wealthy to the Cowboy State in search of quiet scenic retreats from the COVID pandemic in U.S. metropolitan areas. While the super-rich flock to the multi-million mountain ranch refuges in the nation’s least populous state, the energy industry—which accounted for 40 percent of property taxes in the state in 2019—is going through another bust due to the oil price and demand crash in the pandemic. Thousands of oil and gas workers have lost their jobs as oil, gas, and coal production in Wyoming have slumped this year. The state has had to revise its projections for revenues from the industry, considering that since the pandemic, oil and gas companies have operated a low single-digit number of rigs. For one week in late June, Wyoming didn’t have any operating rigs—the first time in […]