Slaves of New York: State is dead last in liberties

NY Post ^ | June 14, 2011 | CARL CAMPANILE

[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.

[Psalm 144]

The blue states are gangrene. The gangrene will spread, and prove terminal.

[misharu]

We need the Simpson’s “HA! HA!” cartoon inserted here.

[cld51860]

Went to the web site and saw that New Hampshire is #1. Isn’t that a major blue state?

Of course, New Jersey, Massachussetts and California were near the bottom as well. No surprises there.

[WayneS]

Virginia is #9, but if we could get “New Hampshire-style carry” passed, repeal the motorcycle helmet law and get rid of the puritan-era laws banning certain sexual practices (even among married couples) then I just KNOW we could leap-frog Oregon and Colorado — and maybe even surge past Nevada and Missouri...

[Peter from Rutland]

If I could get a job in NH I’d be out of this state (MA) in a flash however NH’s property taxes are insanely high.

[edcoil]

I find it hard to believe since the government has not yet regulated salt consumption.

[therightliveswithus]

I live there. Not fun

[Gordon Pym]

NH’s property taxes are insanely high.

Government Schools and federal mandates.

[Oldpuppymax]

And of course these Marxist, state dictatorships always work so well too!

[gwilhelm56]

Which is why we no longer call NY “The Empire State”

We just call it ... “The EMPIRE”

[SJSAMPLE]

Gangrene spreads.

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.

[SJSAMPLE]

Indiana in the top five.
Nice.

[PGalt]

Laboratories of democracy become the stomping grounds for socialists...GO FIGURE.

[bikerman]

I live there. Not fun

I used to, but wised up and left.

[Tzimisce]

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.

[dangus]

NH has no income tax. No sales tax. Just property tax. So yeah, property tax is high.

[Hacklehead]

“Which is why we no longer call NY “The Empire State”

The enlightened that reside here (note I didn’t say “live here” call it “The Vampire State”

[neverdem]

BTTT!

[lowbridge]

Well, not YET anyways...

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