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Top 10 Worst States For Personal Freedom
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| 7/1/2009
Posted on 07/01/2009 9:30:20 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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posted on
07/01/2009 9:40:52 AM PDT
by
rbmillerjr
("We Are All Socialists Now"........not me, not now, not ever)
To: SeekAndFind
relieved not to see California on there. But we all know that is coming down the pike with all the environmental restrictions on cars etc. Unless the train gets derailed.
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posted on
07/01/2009 9:40:53 AM PDT
by
GOP Poet
To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers
I’m surprised that NH, the “Live free or die” state with no income tax is not on the list of best states for personal freedom.
To: buccaneer81
Good point. States have ridiculous and draconian restrictions on various things depending on the local political culture (e.g. Alabama has absurd sex-toy laws, Massachusetts has absurd gun laws, etc).
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posted on
07/01/2009 9:43:23 AM PDT
by
steve-b
(Intelligent design is to evolutionary biology what socialism is to free-market economics.)
To: SeekAndFind
Though I fully expected New Jersey to be on this list, it may be the best state to home-school your child. Virtually no regulations. I’m so grateful for the strong home-school lobby in this state.
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posted on
07/01/2009 9:45:22 AM PDT
by
Longhair_and_Leather
(The new presidential mantra--"Obama let babies die")
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks; In Maryland
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posted on
07/01/2009 9:46:58 AM PDT
by
Albion Wilde
("Shouldn't there be equal time for our Bill of Responsibilities?" -- Justice Clarence Thomas)
To: Onelifetogive
Actually, the weighting is about right — a government threat to jail you for unapproved conduct weighs much more heavily than a mere demand to write a check.
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posted on
07/01/2009 9:47:03 AM PDT
by
steve-b
(Intelligent design is to evolutionary biology what socialism is to free-market economics.)
To: mad_as_he$$
I’m not seeing it — the study defines anti-big-government standards fairly consistently across the board and weighting them by intrusiveness (with petty inconvenience, financial cost, and actual threats of imprisonment more or less in that order).
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posted on
07/01/2009 9:48:57 AM PDT
by
steve-b
(Intelligent design is to evolutionary biology what socialism is to free-market economics.)
To: SeekAndFind
But....but....Maryland is the “free state”! How can this be?
It doesn’t matter anyway. Didn’t you hear that Michael Jackson just died?
To: RC2
Two southern politicians, bubba and joe bob, decided to go into business together selling watermellons. They scraped together some money and bought a truck and 100 mellons for a dollar a piece. They drove to Atlanta and sold the mellons on a street corner for a dollar a piece. At the end of the day bubba counted up the money and told joe bob “we didn’t make any money.” Joe bob replied, “I told you we needed a bigger truck.”
30
posted on
07/01/2009 9:59:11 AM PDT
by
mbynack
(Retired USAF SMSgt)
To: SeekAndFind
I spend all my time between #3 and #5. With a pistol in the console when I'm on the road. ;) Freedom is a GOOD THING(tm).
/johnny
31
posted on
07/01/2009 10:02:46 AM PDT
by
JRandomFreeper
(God Bless us all, each, and every one.)
To: mbynack
Were they selling them in Washington DC? That may have been their problem.
32
posted on
07/01/2009 10:02:51 AM PDT
by
RC2
To: east1234
lol, this is why I left MD 12 yrs ago. Me2
33
posted on
07/01/2009 10:03:58 AM PDT
by
sr4402
To: SeekAndFind
Looking at the ten best and worst, it is clear the the people pitting the list together are smoking something.
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posted on
07/01/2009 10:04:39 AM PDT
by
rjamesca
(Been there, done that . . . for 30 years)
To: SeekAndFind
A lot of this is based on the leftwing libertarian “personal freedom” agenda, gay power, dope, hookers, etc.
35
posted on
07/01/2009 10:06:09 AM PDT
by
ansel12
(Romney (guns)"instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people")
To: SeekAndFind
Quite impressive.
One author has a PhD and is currently serving in the US Navy in Afghanistan. Godspeed, sir.
To: SeekAndFind
1. Maryland
2. Illinois
3. New York
4. Rhode Island
5. Ohio
6. New Jersey
7. Massachusetts
8. Alabama
9. Georgia
10. South Carolina Ping for later
37
posted on
07/01/2009 10:20:15 AM PDT
by
Alex Murphy
("Luther's phrase "faith alone" is true, if it is not opposed to faith in charity, in love" - BXVI)
To: SeekAndFind
No way is Maine second in line for personal freedom.
38
posted on
07/01/2009 10:20:29 AM PDT
by
Mr. Silverback
(We're definitely in the Rise of the Empire era, but is Obama Valorum or Palpatine?)
To: Albion Wilde
How can this be? In Maryland we have the best government officials money can buy!
To: SeekAndFind
5. OhioYep. Had to leave.
Amazing << Hear this. Feel this, and tell me that this isn't music.
Oh, dear...
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posted on
07/01/2009 10:31:40 AM PDT
by
rdb3
(The mouth is the exhaust pipe of the heart.)
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