Almost matches up with which states are losing population and which states are gaining population...
The freest states rejected Obama.
Woo Hoo!
Tennessee is #3
Go Vols!
I live in New York State. It really is becoming like the former East Germany, without the Stasi. One party rule. Gov’t involved in every decision and petty detail of the individual’s life. Confiscatory taxes. No local power, everything decided elsewhere. Industry has fled and those that remain are somehow beholden to Gov’t incentives. To find opportunity, young people must flee west.
Colorado is not nearly close enough to the bottom on that map. It’s one of the least free states in our country, although, yes, many would pay fortunes to publicize otherwise. The State is regulated far beyond all reason—especially some of the prettier counties.
These maps and surveys are useless. All of the states are losing their freedom under the thumb of the federal government. When the states capitulate to the feds under the threat of losing federal funds, that means that you have already lost. To the political class in the individual states, pork and status trump individual rights.
Wrong on Wyoming, too. It’s far freer than New-Yorkish Colorado.
Quite frankly, most Americans will have much more freedom in some third world sh^t hole than they have here...if they have the ability to move
It is a shame that Americans today define freedom by what the media tells them it is rather than by what their parents, schools and nation, at one time, taught them from birth..
