Posted on 02/04/2023 12:19:57 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
As people across the nation and indeed across the globe continue to struggle financially due to inflation, lingering coronavirus outbreaks and the effects of the Russian war on Ukraine, we could all use more economic freedom to fill our pocketbooks and improve our quality of life.
That is the lesson from the Fraser Institute’s annual Economic Freedom of North America and Economic Freedom of the World reports. Drawing upon both its own results and a wealth of other economic research, the Economic Freedom of North America report concluded that “economic freedom is positively correlated with per-capita income, economic growth, greater life expectancy, lower child mortality, the development of democratic institutions, civil and political freedoms and other desirable social and economic outcomes.”
Economic freedom had generally increased slightly in recent years until the COVID-19 pandemic and particularly government policy reactions to it reversed this trend.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
And NY state is the USSR of the east.
Every where you look you see taxpayer money going to private concerns.
Disgusting as in I’se regusted.
California is at the bottom and its governor hopes to be the next President. Doesn’t bode well.
My home state of New York will always be last - control freaks at all levels including the Republicans. Every rinky dink little town on Lawn Guyland has its own school district and many even have their own police departments rather than consolidate like they do in Florida and Texas. Most overpaid civil servants in the nation and the teacher/cop/municipal unions control both parties.
Sorry comrade. I think Minnesota has you beat.
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