{"id":86492,"date":"2023-11-21T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86492"},"modified":"2023-11-21T09:09:36","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T15:09:36","slug":"the-gulag-on-the-hudson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86492","title":{"rendered":"The Gulag On The Hudson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>New York State <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/rotten-apple-new-york-dubbed-least-free-state-country-new-study?intcmp=tw_fnc\">christened the &#8220;least free&#8221; in the United States<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The report, conducted by the Cato Institute, showed that New York ranked last place among the 50 states for 2022 policies that impacted economic, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/personal-freedoms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">social, and personal freedoms.<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New York ranked 50th for economic freedom and scored at or near the bottom for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/economy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">debt and state and local taxation,<\/a> government consumption, land use and labor policy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Heeeeeyyyyyy &#8211; the study is by the <em>Cato Institute<\/em>!   They&#8217;re biased toward freedom!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We live in a world where that can be seen as a pejorative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York State christened the &#8220;least free&#8221; in the United States: The report, conducted by the Cato Institute, showed that New York ranked last place among the 50 states for 2022 policies that impacted economic, social, and personal freedoms.&nbsp; New York ranked 50th for economic freedom and scored at or near the bottom for debt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86493,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86492\/revisions\/86493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}