{"id":13567,"date":"2013-03-29T08:37:54","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T15:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=13567"},"modified":"2013-03-29T08:37:54","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T15:37:54","slug":"friday-freedom-question-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/29\/friday-freedom-question-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday freedom question"},"content":{"rendered":"

The question for today: Where does your state rank on the 50 States Freedom Index<\/a> — and do you care?<\/b><\/p>\n

(Readers from Wales and South Africa and Germany, et al — if you want to play, you could use the Heritage Index of Economic Freedom<\/a>, the Fraser Institute’s Index<\/a> (.pdf) or some other index that rates countries.)<\/p>\n

Some states, like NY, CA, and IL are so generally hellish that it seems the rankings mean a lot. Others, like WY and WA (that have oddball tax structures or something else non-standard about them), tend to produce rankings that don’t mean as much from an individual perspective. <\/p>\n

And of course the crappiest state or country can have great pockets of political freedom. And half a dozen members of the Commentariat will rush to declare (rightly) that “freedom is a state of mind.”<\/p>\n

Still, do the rankings mean anything at all<\/i> to you? Would you use them even as a datapoint when deciding to move or advising a friend on making a move?<\/p>\n

—–<\/p>\n

If you don’t want to ID your state’s rank for privacy reasons, just say “it falls in the middle” or “it’s near the top” or whatever.<\/i><\/p>\n

H\/T J.G. for the idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The question for today: Where does your state rank on the 50 States Freedom Index — and do you care? (Readers from Wales and South Africa and Germany, et al — if you want to play, you could use the Heritage Index of Economic Freedom, the Fraser Institute’s Index (.pdf) or some other index that rates countries.) Some states, like NY, CA, and IL are so generally hellish that it seems the rankings mean a lot. Others, like WY and WA (that have oddball tax structures or something else non-standard about them), tend to produce rankings that don’t mean as…<\/p>\n

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