Texas was found to be the state with the fewest personal freedoms, according to the Cato Institute’s new Freedom Index.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, a lot of their “fiscal freedom” stuff is insane.

      “Government employment refers to the state’s workforce, which can crowd out employment in the private sector.”

      Uh huh. Fuck off, conservatives.

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        1 year ago

        The education freedom section is worse, they equate undermining the public education system with “freedom” and while they didn’t weigh home schooling highly, they counted any kind of state standards or curriculum requirements for home school as “unfree”