For George Mason University’s Mercatus Center, professors William Ruger and Jason Sorens, tenured elsewhere, have published a study of American liberties entitled, “Freedom in the Fifty States.”
The scholars define “individual freedom as the ability to dispose of one’s own life, liberty, and justly acquired property however one sees fit, so long as one does not coercively infringe on another individual’s ability to do the same.”
Wisconsin ranks poorly – 35th in economic freedom, 39th in personal freedom, and 37th overall.
More government intervention from city or state is the last thing the beleaguered residents of Wisconsin need. We have gone quite far enough in that direction.
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