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While New Hampshire, Colorado and South Dakota could all reasonably claim to be the freest state in the country, only New York is in contention for the least free title. The main reason is the Empire State's penchant for high taxes - on the whole, they are the highest in the nation, and income taxes on both the individual and business level are extensive.


http://www.realclearpolitics.com/lists/freest-least-free-states/new-york.html?state=play

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Gee, I would at least think this would be a race between us and California.  But as usual, hang our head in dismay and chant..."We're Number 1!"


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...elect more Democrats, see how that works out for you...


"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
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the repubs are traking away all of are freedom THAT IS WHY WE NEED THE CONSERVS AND DEMOS IN THERE
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CONS and DEM who? SS Savage? LOL. Where? Talk about an oxymoron from a moron.
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NYS is the "least free" state in the country due to it crushing tax load placed on it residents, this is not a title that this state should be very proud of as the just the mention of NYS and it's high taxes drives businesses away and forces residents to flee to states that are more tax friendly. We are headed in the same direction as Taxafornia and the state will have to do something drastic to balance it's budget because sooner than later the government money will run out and the state will be on it's own just like California.
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CONS and DEM who? SS Savage? LOL. Where? Talk about an oxymoron from a moron.


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For a month in advance, the people who filled the courtroom had been told by the press that they would see the man who was a greedy enemy of society; but they had come to see the man who had invented Rearden Metal.
He stood up, when the judges called upon him to do so. He wore a gray suit, he had pale blue eyes and blond hair; it was not the colors that made his figure seem icily implacable, it was the fact that the suit had an expensive simplicity seldom flaunted these days, that it belonged in the sternly luxurious office of a rich corporation, that his bearing came from a civilized era and clashed with place around him.
The crowd knew from the newspapers that he represented the evil of ruthless wealth; and-as they praised the virtue of chastity, then ran to see any movie that displayed a half-naked female on its posters-so they came to see him; evil, at least, did not have the stale hopelessness of a bromide which none believed and none dared to challenge. They looked at him without admiration-admiration was a feeling they had lost the capacity to experience, long ago; they  looked with curiosity and with a dim sense of defiance agaoinst those who had told them that it was their duty to hate him.
A few yers ago, they would have jeered at his air of self-confident wealth. But today, there was a slate-gray sky in the windows of the courtroom, which promised the first snowstorm of a long, hard winter, the last of the country's oil was vanishing, and the coal mines were not able to keep up with hysterical scramble for winter supplies. The crowd in the courtroom remembered that this was the case which had cost them the services of Ken Danagger. There were rumors that the output of the Danagger Coal Company had fallen perceptibly within one month; the newspapers had not mentioned, but the crowd knew, that the girders had come from Orren Boyle's Associated Steel.
They sat in the courtroom in heavy silence and they looked at the tall, gray figure, not with hope-they were losing the capacity to hope-but with an impassive neutrality spiked by a faint question mark;the question mark was placed over all the pious slogans they had heard for years.
The newspapers had snarled that the cause of the country's troubles, as this case demonstrated, ws the selvish greed of rich industrialists; that it was men like Hank Rearden who were to blame for the shrinking diet, the falling temperature and the cracking roofs in the homes of the nation; that if it had not been for men who broke regulations and hampered the government's plans, prosperity would have been achieved long ago; and that a man like Hank Rearden was prompted by nothing but the profit motive. This last was stated without explanation or elaboration, as if the words "profit motive" were the self-evident brand of ultimate evil.
The crowd remembered that these same newspapers, less than two years ago, had screamed that the production of Rearden Metal should be forbidden,because its producer ws endangering people's lives for the sake of his greed; they remembered that the man in gray had ridden in the cab of the the first engine to run over a trak of his own Metal; and that he was now on trial for the greedy  crime of withholding from the public a load of the Metal which is had been his greedy crime  to offer in the public market.
According to the procedure established by directives, cases of this kind were not tried by a jury, but by a panel of three judges appointed by the Bureau of Economic Planning and National Resources; the procedure, the directives had stated, was to informal and democratic. The judge's bench had been removed from the old Philadelphia courtroom for this occasion, and replaced by a table on a wooden platform; it gave the room an atomosphere  suggesting the kind of meeting where a presiding body puts something over on a mentally retarded membership.


Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
1957


...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......

The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.


STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS

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