re: US Slips to 12th in Economic Freedom

where the frick does healthcare get included int this index? tuba i know its tough to not be a hack but nothing in this article says free healthcare is better, in fact the indices within the index give a negative score for bigger government, which is funny because by you mentioning big government in this article it's backfired on your in a fabulous way.

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he index, built on decades of research by Nobel laureates and dozens of leading scholars, measures 5 broad factors that impact the economy: 1. Size of government; 2. Legal structure and security of property rights; 3. Access to sound money; 4. Freedom to trade internationally and; 5. Regulation of Credit, Labor and Business.

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btw the bigger the government, the worst your index score. It plainly states the biggest reason why we have dropped is

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The biggest drop in US economic freedom has been in the country's legal structure. The report notes that, "increased use of eminent domain to transfer property to powerful political interests, the ramifications of the wars on terrorism and drugs, and the violation of the property rights of bondholders in the auto-bailout case have weakened the tradition of strong adherence to the rule of law in United States."

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This latest report is a sobering look at the scale of challenges facing the US. Curtailing government's leviathan isn't simply solving a math problem, i.e. getting revenue and spending figures for government to balance. A far larger threat is the accumulation of thousands of rules and regulations that not only stifle innovation but also undermine our personal and property rights.

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