Posted on 06/14/2011 12:04:13 PM PDT by lowbridge
The Empire State ranked 50th in George Mason University's biannual "Freedom in the States" rankings.
"New York has by far the highest taxes in the country," the study reads, citing steep levies on property, income and corporations compared to other states.
The high taxes, in turn, fuel massive spending, according to the analysis by George Mason's Mercatus Center, a libertarian think tank.
"Spending on public welfare, hospitals, electric power, transit, employee retirement . . . are well above national norms," concludes the report, which covers the 2007-through-2009 period.
Ranking worst in the categories of economic freedom and fiscal policy, New York also landed near the bottom for the categories of personal freedom (48th) and regulatory policy (40th).
The study cites New York's restrictive gun-control and anti-smoking laws and sky-high cigarette taxes and the Big Apple's ban on trans fats.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Don’t laugh - they have a President who is willing to bail them out!
On the other hand [/obligatory Weiner reference], NY is first in libertines.
IN the other hand...
“Hard to feel sorry for the people of New York. They spent years entrenching this stuff. Now they’re fleeing to my neighborhood where they vote to raise my taxes and take my freedom.”
You really have to separate the NYers that still live there and support this stuff from many who have fled looking for work in other states who have no interest in it at all. States like NY and NJ are ripe for the “gay marriage” nonsense because so many Americans have left them, and the illegals that replaced them in the rustbelt towns can’t vote anyway.
>When blue-staters consume and destroy their host, as in Kalifornia and Nueva Jork, they move on to a healthier host. Stop them at the border.
Here’s my Evil Plan: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2698298/posts
(Too bad I’m not Governor.)
BLIGHT IS MIGHT...!!!
New Wienerland
IF the same-sex “marriage” bill passes, NY religions will also have a lot less liberties.
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