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freest states
« on: May 31, 2009, 06:06:47 PM »
http://www.mercatus.org/uploadedFiles/Mercatus/Publications/Freedom%20in%20the%2050%20States.pdf

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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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Re: freest states
« Reply #1 on: June 01, 2009, 12:10:03 AM »
Notice all the blue states are less free.
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Re: freest states
« Reply #2 on: June 01, 2009, 12:10:37 AM »
Quote from: Ptarmigan on June 01, 2009, 12:10:03 AM
Notice all the blue states are less free.
Yeah, that's kind of a shock. :fuelfire:
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Re: freest states
« Reply #3 on: June 01, 2009, 12:35:38 AM »
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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Re: freest states
« Reply #4 on: June 01, 2009, 06:45:17 AM »
Quote from: Ptarmigan on June 01, 2009, 12:10:03 AM
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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Re: freest states
« Reply #5 on: June 01, 2009, 02:37:38 PM »
Quote from: NHSparky on June 01, 2009, 06:45:17 AM
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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Re: freest states
« Reply #6 on: June 01, 2009, 02:41:14 PM »
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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Re: freest states
« Reply #7 on: June 01, 2009, 03:09:48 PM »
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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Re: freest states
« Reply #8 on: June 01, 2009, 04:16:21 PM »
It would figure that my state is dead effin' last in that. :whatever: :censored:
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Re: freest states
« Reply #9 on: June 01, 2009, 04:19:15 PM »
Quote from: BlueStateSaint on June 01, 2009, 04:16:21 PM
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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Re: freest states
« Reply #10 on: June 01, 2009, 04:23:33 PM »
Quote from: BlueStateSaint on June 01, 2009, 04:16:21 PM
It would figure that my state is dead effin' last in that. :whatever: :censored:

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