An Index of Personal and Economic Freedom
The Cato Institute rates each of the 50 states according to several issues including fiscal, regulatory, economic, land, etc. The link will take you to the main page for the 2021 ranking. There is a map with each state linking to the specific ranking data. Click on your state for that information, or scroll down to download the PDF file with all the 50 states listed with their ranking and data used to create the overall rank they received.
I was surprised with some of the states in the top ten and which states weren’t in the top ten.
Below is an image to show the overall ranks of each state:
Proud and pleasantly surprised to see Michigan at 7. I will say the amount of local police we have in Michigan is absurd. You can’t really go 5 miles without seeing some form of law enforcement when the reality is the only places you need law enforcement in Michigan is Detroit, Pontiac, Flint, and Saginaw aka the hyper black areas.
I see New Hampshire is #1, but I’m entirely satisfied to live in #2 Florida with no snow.
Fucking New York prevents Hawaii from being…
5-O
Idaho will soon go to Oregon’s ranking. Hmm, it seems Wyoming and Montana changed their names to each respective other names… curious.
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Yeah, didn’t you know that they changed places last night? Would you believe… Oh, crap. Never mind. I goofed. Fixed it … 😳🤪 – Claudia
How the fuck is Nevada #3 with bullshit mask mandates still in place two years into this horseshit?
Also Cederq, it MT not MO…
This map is geographically challenged. Two states are labeled “MO”, and one of them, Montana (MT), is labeled “WY” while Wyoming is labeled “MO”.
As a resident of New Hampshire, I am both pleased and mystified.
Will the real MO #11 please stand up?
Montana *MT* must be #18
Apparently allowing cheating in the election wasn’t a factor in this ranking.
It would be interesting to see on overlay of this map and blue vs red states.
Also the “swing” states.
Cheating just look in the mirror!
CEDERQ!
What’s up with brother Phil’s site at “Bustedknuckles”?
I know folks wanted to shut him down. Did they win?
Scott, He is up and running and I am a co-host there. It is Bustednuckles.com as the primary and Vulgar Curmudgeon.com as the back up and some posting. The Coldfury Bustednuckles is permanently broken.
Scott, also no, they did not break us, we are back, we are bad, we are blogging!
Miss Claudia, at least ya got South Dakota right, all that matters to this Plains boy.
That means shit to me.
You’d think that with Chinese flu detention camps yaknow ACTUALLY being built and WA advertising for “strike force” employees to snatch people off the streets we could do better than 39!
C’mon Jay, get with the program.
What happent to the other 7 States?
Yeah, I don’t buy NV as #3 – not with that asshole they have for a Gov., and the reputation for corruption in the past.
It’s interesting, us bringing up the REAR at 50.
Good GRIEF.
But you know what?
Tell that to the people that live year round in the Central Adirondacks.
It was minus 10 degrees there the other night. They don’t give a rats ass about the gubmint and are not worried anyone will be coming for their guns anytime soon.
And yes the asshoes in Albany will always be asshoes in Albany.
@VeedonFleece January 15, 2022 at 8:25 pm
> As a resident of New Hampshire, I am both pleased and mystified.
The Cato Institute — it’s like being named “Daddy of the Year” by NAMBLA.