Red States Dominate Freedom Index
By: Will
Yep
Red states are much better than blue states. They have business friendly environment, lower taxes, fewer regulations, better energy policies, nice rural areas, small and mid sized towns and exurbs and even small cities. More friendly, less crime. All because red states largely have better people in their majority population than blue ones do. Red states also have much lower unemployment rates than blue ones do. It’s not even close and of course the lockdowns and mandates still play a role in this.
California economy lags, but not Nebraska
BY DAN WALTERS DECEMBER 5, 2021
In summary
California’s economy was tied for the nation’s highest unemployment rate in October while Nebraska had the lowest.
It’s time again for some fun with numbers.
When the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics released employment and unemployment numbers for October, they revealed a huge disparity.
Nationally, the unemployment rate had dropped to 4.6%, virtually identical to where it was before the COVID-19 pandemic eviscerated the economy 21 months ago. But state jobless rates ranged from a low of 1.9% in Nebraska to 7.3% in California and Nevada.
read more: https://calmatters.org/commentary/2021/12/california-economy-unemployment-lags-nebraska-comeback/
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Red States Dominate Freedom Index
by Will about 23 hours ago
Americans are fleeing blue states for red states in droves. Whatever leftist run hellhole they’re fleeing from, whether it be in the Northeast, West coast, or leftist city in the Midwest, Americans are ditching the blue state autocrats.
The question has become why that’s happening? Is it a tax issue, as many claim ? Or, rather, is it something deeper than cash, something having to do with freedom?
A recently released study from the libertarian Cato Institute hints that, even if taxes are a major factor in the blue exodus, it might also be that Americans are moving to states where they can live lives as free men and the states where they can do so are red states.
The study, called “ Freedom in the 50 States ,” creates a “ ranking of the American states on the basis of how their policies promote freedom in the fiscal, regulatory, and personal realms. ” It examines fiscal freedom, personal freedom, education, and many other areas, overall examining 230 factors. However, while there are those 230 factors and 25 subcategories, the three main categories the study examines are personal freedoms, fiscal policies, and regulatory policies.
Describing why it combines both personal freedom and economic freedom, the study says:
Our index encompasses both economic and personal freedoms because the two sets of freedoms are complementary. A state scoring high in economic freedom but not in personal freedom—a hypothetical American Singapore—would not be a really free state in the way the liberal tradition understands it. Nor would a state high in personal freedom but low in economic freedom—an American Argentina—provide the liberal conditions necessary for human flourishing in the broadest sense.
To faithfully examine what freedom is, the report’s authors needed a baseline definition of it. Here’s the definition they used:
We ground our conception of freedom on an individual rights framework. In our view, individuals should be allowed to dispose of their lives, liberties, and property as they see fit, so long as they do not infringe on the rights of others.
And what it found was that red states, even if they are less free than would theoretically be ideal, dominate the index.
The ten least free states are:
- New York
- Hawaii
- California
- New Jersey
- Oregon
- Maryland
- Delaware
- Vermont
- New Mexico
- Rhode Island
Guess what the common denominator is between those states? Other than Maryland and Vermont, which both have RINO governors, each one is run by a Democrat. All tend to vote very blue.
And the ten most free states?
- New Hampshire
- Florida
- Nevada
- Tennessee
- South Dakota
- Indiana
- Michigan
- Georgia
- Arizona
- Idaho
The common denominator is the same type of thing: other than Nevada and Michigan, each of those states is run by a Republican.
So, though there are a few exceptions, red states are overwhelmingly more free than blue states. Perhaps that’s why Americans are fleeing to them in droves: they want to live free.
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Here is the link to the actual study.
The actual study is linked in the seeded article. Remember though that in addition to freedom, economics play a role in the move of people from blue states to red ones. I noticed big jumps up in freedom in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan after the courts there ended governors emergency powers. Oregon’s power mad Governor really dropped her state.
Yes, I know. I just prefer to read the actual studies rather than someone else's interpretation of it. I'll make my own decisions, thank you very much.
What was your decision?
For the last several years I've only used it to look at Texas ranking. And just like I thought, it is still muddling around in the middle.
I always prefer going to the source document than reading a story about it though.
If you're interested, Cato also has a good article about New Hampshire leading the way.
Live free or die! The best motto. One that China needs to know that most Americans believe.
Actually Texas moved up three spots to #21 while Florida remained #2.
Correct, but Texas has always muddled around in the 20 - 30 range. It is really good for companies. Not as much for individuals. High sales taxes, high RE taxes. I actually came across the 2018 report that I had downloaded and was going through that, even though I was supposed to be working.
And yet so many formerly from my state have moved to Texas the last several years over the economic freedom, business friendliness, and much lower real estate prices and of course no state income tax.
Yep, and they all move to the cities. I enjoyed living in Dallas in the early 90's. Not so much now. You will note that not that many move to the country. Me, I prefer northern NM. I wouldn't mind living in Maine either. Man that is some beautiful country. I need to visit the NW though. Never been there.
Not all. That is an ideological thing too. Most Republicans who move to Texas move to more rural or small town or exurb environments while many on the left go to Austin or Houston. I’m a still Californian who lives in a totally rural part of the state. The 30% part of the state north of Santa Rosa and Sacramento metro areas up to Oregon. Where there are only two cities over 80k pop (Redding, Chico) and none over 100k in over 50k square miles of the 150k sq mi state.
There you go again, acting superior and elitist, like always. That is the type of commentary we expect from fascist propagandists.
That is the root of the word that aptly describes their majority population, supremacist.
I don't know that the majority of the population in the so-called red states are "supremacist". However, the tenor of the seeder's quoted statement is clearly elitist and comports with fascist propaganda techniques.
The elitists are in their ivory towers on the bi coastal urban hell holes and their limousine liberal friends in gated communities there. As to my commentary, it had the effect I expected. A name calling retort rather than disagree with something the article said.
According to some moron, crimes only happen in largely blue cities and states.
Most but not all crime does happens in largely blue cities and states. Criminals mostly but not all live in blue cities and states.