Posted on 06/30/2009 5:33:41 AM PDT by bestintxas
1. Alaska
2. Maine
3. New Mexico
4. Arkansas
5. Texas
6. Missouri
7. Oregon
8. Idaho
9. Virginia
10. Wyoming
Oregon?! You can’t be free with an 11% state income tax amd nannyism up the wazoo.
Maine? No thanks. Full of moonbats, and the “personal freedom” they’re talking about here is the “freedom” to kill your babies and marry your same-sex “partner.” As far as REAL freedom is concerned - like property rights, etc. - Maine is pitiful.
Maine???? These “free people” elected Olypia Snowe and mini-me, Susan Collins.
Is New Hampshire such a lost cause at the “Live Free or Die” state doesn’t even make the list?
Not sure what the formula was, but if Arkansas is on it they need to adjust it a bit.
Virginia just passed a ban on smoking in restaurants. Free? not any more.
Maine ahead of Texas.....? oh my..that can’t be allowed to stand.... Corrections please....
Maine and Oregon?? If you believe in all the ultra liberal orthodoxy then I guess they belong.
Utah and Oklahoma vote Republican by the highest margins but also have a ton of laws that restrict “personal” freedoms.
I suppose it is a matter of determining what is free, and what is conservative. Obviously Republican doesn’t equal personal freedom in some circumstances.
Main, Oregon & New Mexico? Yeah, right. We once thought about moving to New Mexico eventually. But that state hasn’t lost its Democrat corruption persona, and that dream is over. As for Main, there’s too much Snowe. And Oregon is way too liberal. Madison, WI, 100 miles North would be the equivalent of that...
Compiled by the Mercatus Center, a nonprofit public policy research center affiliated with George Mason University, using a wide swath of comparative data to determine personal freedoms, including alcohol and drug laws, asset-forfeiture rules, and education regulations.
The listing above is for Personal Freedom. There are several other rankings in the report, here:
http://www.mercatus.org/uploadedFiles/Mercatus/Publications/Freedom%20in%20the%2050%20States.pdf
I wonder what their criteria are.
If they were going by economic freedom, those states wouldn’t be there.
They probably include some libertinism in their criteria. Like, license to do anything you want without consequence is a “positive” to some.
Exactly. NH made the top spot in that study, “Freedom in the Fifty States.”
PDF of the study
Not surprized that Mo.’s on the list.
Perhaps one of their standards for the list was a state should have a large rural region. It’s in those areas that true freedom (or something almost close to it)can exist. I know I’m deep in the boonies and I LOVE IT!
True....but a lot of what is considered "personal freedom" in lists like these are things like access to abortion, allowance of gay marriage and other parts of the gay agenda, etc. In cases like those, I don't view these as legitimate freedom anywise, so the list seems skewed as a result.
Maine????
You kiddin me????
This is crap....I live in Maine and you can’t even build a shed in your yard without a two year planning board process...guns are easy to have and conceal but other than that everything else is heavily regulated
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