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June 6, 2009, 01:02 PM | #1 |
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How free is your state?
Here is the just released list of how states stack up in the freedom department.New Hampshire leads the list freedom wise while the socialists round out the bottom ten.Rhode Island surprised me.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.p...w&pageId=91539 or http://www.stoptheaclu.com/2009/05/0...nk-least-free/ 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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June 6, 2009, 01:35 PM | #2 |
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TE, While I won't be the one to hit the tri-angle button on this thread but...
Personal freedoms is a far cry from just 2A rights thus I do not see the gun related or gun related laws and civil rights connection... Plus these numbers could be easily skewed... For instance the louisiana laws against britches showing boxer shorts... is that included... IBTL Brent |
June 6, 2009, 01:36 PM | #3 |
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Geeze, the way life should be eh? I'm surprised to see Maine so low and just a few miles separate me from the freest state.
It's not so bad here. I'll have to check out the links to see why we're so far down the line. Surprised about NY though. I woulda figured California. |
June 6, 2009, 01:42 PM | #4 |
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"Rankings were determined by measuring the personal and economic freedoms of the citizens of the various states coupled with the size and cost of government, education regulations, Second Amendment restrictions, as well as the amount of interference via regulations and police agencies on the populace."
These have nothing to do, directly, with freedom. NY ranks at the bottom of the list due to high taxes, education regulations and size and cost of government. None of those things are equal to "freedom" in my mind. High taxes and big government suck? Yep, sucks a lot. Not a freedom issue. Guess who keeps putting the idiots back in office? The FREELY voting, freely living in NY state, NYers. NY is not nearly as bad as it's reputation would have people believe. Far too many people think that NY = NY City, which it decidedly does not. The rest of the state is very nice indeed. In short, I'm calling this BS.
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