Most Free Least Free Freedom in the 50 States

5 for me. I love the show me state

Same as you OP, #5. Been here all my life.

Me, too. I am so glad to be on this side of the river. Fuck ILL-ANNOY with their nasty gun laws.

aw man i hada feelin

8 for Oregon!

50 - Sad

Alaska is considered LESS free than Ohio?!

#43 - Maryland. I used to live in NJ though so it's a step up..

Well Illinois should be 50th for being the most corrupt place on earth

#8

If you want a good look at the South Dakota landscape, that movie "Dances With Wolves" has a lot of panoramic views of the beautiful rolling hills and wide open vistas there.

I saw that on a super big screen when it first came out, a giant old fashioned theater that was torn down shortly thereafter (the Mann Theater in Minneapolis).

I was proud to be a Minnesota neighbor to the beautiful landscape of South Dakota. And there are even prettier parts than what was in the movie.

Also I have seen a movie that was shot in Mongolia with many wide angle open landscape shots and thought the topography and vegetation of Mongolia was very very similar to the South Dakota landscape as seen in Dances With Wolves.

So we are not free but rather enslaved by greedy fucks protected by indoctrinated idiots that have been spoon fed an information so as to peform as required. This is also how you train animals.

I'm renting..so I can easily move around the country. Things will get much worse from here on out. Count on it....

Not surprised by California, but people stay because it's California.

I'm not too surprised with the overall and the economic.
Energy is big here, oil, gas, windmill farms etc...

The personal, well hmmm, well i dunno i'm thinking 50 at best as I look around.

Yeah, if New York didn't come up at 50 I was going to doubt the entire findings. Some people were surprised we even need to pay $ for a permit to have a lawn sale, limit is two per season, or you get shut down by the cops. That's in most counties. You can't smoke anywhere outside just about anywhere in the state anymore. Highest taxes overall. It's hell here. Wish I could get out but I can't afford the gas or moving expenses.

Hah. #14 - Texas. Legalize gambling and relax drug laws. A stoner state poll.

/not that I don't agree

that is an excellent distillation of the situation.

Let's see, lived in #26, then took a step down in freedom by moving to #38, but took a bit of a step up in then moving to #32, where I currently reside.

#48,,, I knew it

I'm going to have to move to Indy(in Ohio). You got my attention, brother. 5 well deserved stars and a karma and a hearty thank you!

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Number 4 and proud of it!

You are all trying to measure something intangible.
Freedom cant be measured, you either have it or you dont.
Grow up already.

#19 here - I find this map to be a little ironic. Most of the states that are typically considered "liberal", states that supposedly celebrate freedom of thought, and new ideas (sinful ideas), are some of the least free. On the other hand, states such as my own (Alabama) which are stereotyped as "backwards" and "too traditional" are considered more free. Hmmm....maybe being traditional and conservative isn't so bad. I was raised and taught to honor God and the ten commandments. I was taught that Jesus came to fullfill the law, and that we were to follow the laws of the land as long as they did not contradict His word. Jesus said that we are to be slaves to righeousness. As we lose our lives, and are crucificed with Christ, it is then, and only then that we can truly find freedom...in our soul, in our marriages, in our families, in our churches,in our finances, in our work, in our school, and every part of our lives.

Oklahoma beats Texas again! #12. ;)

I moved to Alaska years ago because of the freedom and now to see it's number 44... I have noticed this state does spend a larger portion of money on law enforcement in recent years.

LOL my State is like 27th I think- Absolute stupid criteria for "free states"- Lets put it this way, a few days ago I walked down to the Cannabis Shop with my strapped with my 38 because I have a CCW- Then I went to the store and bought an incandescent light bulb because my State juyst passed a law that incandescent lightbulbs will still be sold past 2012 regardless of Federal Law.

So I am legally smoking a joint and packing heat and looking at a damn REGULAR light buld (i.e. not a fucking corkscrew) and your little state list tells me I am in the bottom half of the 50 most free states?

Sure taxes are high, jobs scarce and blah, blah, blah- But this State is most free I have ever lived in (in my 36 years living in seven states) and your list is full of shit.

Yeah, I am tracking what you say Phen. As a kid from the 'burbs, where I grew up was relatively reasonable. Having gone back on leave over the years I have watched it deteriorate into a worsening hell hole.

Why? Well where I am from there’s a huge influx of New Jersey folks...who fled that States high taxes, and tyrannical government to simply demand it in PA. Gun Control...up, Nanny State...up, Taxes...up. Add to that the influx of 3rd world nationals, mostly from India and Pakistan into my AO, as well as an increasing illegal population...and there ya go.

Now this is focused in the trifecta cities in PA. Philadelphia, Harrisburg, and Pittsburg but urban sprawl is extending it. Nothing pisses me off more than paying all these taxes, to watch it get pissed away in those cities while we are ignored in fly over. That and being told something that was perfectly legal yesterday, but banned today because a bunch of new neo nazi neighbors moved in and decided they didnt like that activity (ATV's, Shooting Ranges, Hunting, ect).

I used to joke that if I thought for one second that blowing every bridge to New Jersey would cause that State to drift off into the Atlantic I would. I don’t care how others live or their communities...vote with your feet so to say. But this cancer is spreading to where there are few and far between liberty zones left...the locusts consume and move on to greener fields to ravage. And the Progressives are doing a bang up job of federalizing everything and making it so there are no safe zones.

JMHO.

i dont agree with number three.not after they ruled police dont need a warrent to enter your house.

#1 Here...

As far as laws go, yeah, we are fairly free. No sales tax, which is great for visitors and our neighborly states but for those of us who live here, it's getting harder and harder to stay afloat financially. They tax the HELL out of us with property tax. In the next town over my Mom has a 3 Bd, 1.5 Ba Cape on .18 acres and her taxes are about $7,000/yr. This year in our little town our property taxes will rise $1 per $1000. I'm ready to jump ship. :(