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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: franksolich on May 31, 2009, 06:06:47 PM
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http://www.mercatus.org/uploadedFiles/Mercatus/Publications/Freedom%20in%20the%2050%20States.pdf
Caution: pdf file, in which all is explained.
Overall Freedom Ranking
State Overall freedom
1. New Hampshire 0.432
2. Colorado 0.421
3. South Dakota 0.392
4. Idaho 0.356
5. Texas 0.346
6. Missouri 0.320
7. Tennessee 0.284
8. Arizona 0.279
9. Virginia 0.275
10. North Dakota 0.268
11. Utah 0.250
12. Kansas 0.210
13. Indiana 0.208
14. Michigan 0.206
15. Wyoming 0.193
16. Iowa 0.183
17. Georgia 0.146
18. Oklahoma 0.143
19. Montana 0.125
20. Pennsylvania 0.102
21. Alabama 0.092
22. Florida 0.068
23. North Carolina 0.019
24. Nevada 0.013
25. Mississippi -0.004
26. Delaware -0.008
27. Oregon -0.009
28. Nebraska -0.018
29. Arkansas -0.023
30. South Carolina -0.040
31. Alaska -0.071
32. Kentucky -0.082
33. West Virginia -0.097
34. Louisiana -0.110
35. Minnesota -0.111
36. New Mexico -0.150
37. Wisconsin -0.199
38. Ohio -0.205
39. Maine -0.214
40. Vermont -0.217
41. Connecticut -0.225
42. Illinois -0.238
43. Massachusetts -0.242
44. Washington -0.275
45. Hawaii -0.304
46. Maryland -0.405
47. California -0.413
48. Rhode Island -0.430
49. New Jersey -0.457
50. New York -0.784
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Notice all the blue states are less free.
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Notice all the blue states are less free.
Yeah, that's kind of a shock. :fuelfire:
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That's why I live in N.Idaho. Down around Boise, not so free, it's the bluest part of Idaho. Big city, go figure. More leaches on the backs of producers.
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Notice all the blue states are less free.
Not all of them. Look at the top of the list. But mark my words, it's going to hell quickly with a bunch of nitwit Dems in our state government.
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Not all of them. Look at the top of the list. But mark my words, it's going to hell quickly with a bunch of nitwit Dems in our state government.
Your state too, eh Sparky?
I was kinda shocked to see Colorado place "numero dos" on that list. Don't worry though, we've got Governor Ritter here, to fix that.
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Would have been cool if they had included net unemployment and net migration in their numbers.
Oregon vote more and more democratic as we got more and more immigrants from California. Which probably is what is bending Oregon so blue these days.
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Migration to NH is coming more and more from MA, but they're not the big reason this state is going more Dem. People from VT and ME are also moving here, and as the native population ages, they want that "free" stuff like Medicare, etc.
Unemployment is significantly lower than the national and regional averages. Even in a modest area like mine, it's still under 6 percent. Last year, it was just above 3 percent.
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It would figure that my state is dead effin' last in that. :whatever: :censored:
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It would figure that my state is dead effin' last in that. :whatever: :censored:
Did you figure it was anyplace else?
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It would figure that my state is dead effin' last in that. :whatever: :censored:
Really sucks being 57th doesn't it