What is the freest place? Where can someone go in order to gain a high degree of freedom and economic prosperity?
Schools are labour camps.
Here is the Heritage foundation's economic freedom index.
http://www.heritage.org/Index/countries.cfm
1. Hong Kong
2. Singapore
3. Ireland
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Irish Liberty Forum
United States No. 5 ???
I am trying to retrieve an outstanding Mises blog from last Thursday but I guess it has already been deleted, it stated with rather amusing language that the United States today no longer has laissez-faire, rather with all its government agencies (CIA, FBI, DEA, NASA, INS, IRS, FCC, etc.) it should be closer to a totalitarian state. (I am sure those of you who also read it will recognize the list above). I do not remember the author, but I clearly remember that was the message. I should have saved it. I hope it can be retrieved because I wish to read it again
Art transcends ideology.
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Rubén: United States No. 5 ??? I am trying to retrieve an outstanding Mises blog from last Thursday but I guess it has already been deleted, it stated with rather amusing language that the United States today no longer has laissez-faire, rather with all its government agencies (CIA, FBI, DEA, NASA, INS, IRS, FCC, etc.) it should be closer to a totalitarian state. (I am sure those of you who also read it will recognize the list above). I do not remember the author, but I clearly remember that was the message. I should have saved it. I hope it can be retrieved because I wish to read it again
The list merely indicates that the USA is one of the least unfree countries on earth.
Did you mean this one? AFAIK, articles never get deleted.
Would Australia qualify as free?
Hardly, with guns being outlawed and universal healthcare.
If I hear not allowed much oftener; said Sam, I'm going to get angry.
J.R.R.Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
Switzerland is relatively free, in a terms of the economy at least.
"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows"
Bob Dylan
That's the very one!
Are there any studies that anyone knows of that expand on this (being a measure of solely economic freedom)?
I'm just asking because i'm wondering, 'is this as good as is gets?' Considering theres a fascist dictatorship at number 5....If I were Warren Buffett instead of giving all my wealth to the Gates' philanthropy bussiness i'd buy an island, create another one of those city-states at the top of that ol' list...but actually make it free. One can dream.
I can't believe that Ireland is number three. That's terrible news for my perception of the rest of the world!
http://irishliberty.wordpress.com/
I'd say Switzerland.
Is it possible to be stateless? What if you don't reside anywhere for 6 months, and work under the table?
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. ... Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."
Yeah I don't agree with 3rd place. Last years Ireland becomes more and more like other countries of EU. "Wonderfull economy is gone".
Even there is Hong Kong on the 1st place there are many interventions of the state mainly in primary and secondary educations and medical care. There is no country we could mark as free in whole world. The word free itself is very questionable.