Study shows New Yorkers have less freedom.

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   Barefootfaeposted 11 years ago

   http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/03/29/ … te-in-u-s/
   
   Your thoughts on this study.
   Let's just get out of the way to start it was a libertarian think tank that released this info.
   Shoot them not me.

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      Cody Hodge5posted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Uhh...the article clearly states it was a conservative think tank.
      
      Btw...
      
      The article also states lower alcohol and substance abuse rates than many other states as well as a lower divorce rate. Seems like a Christian paradise

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      retief2000posted 11 years agoin reply to this

      New Yorkers seem to love the life as wards of the nanny state.  They continue to elect those who would rather be zoo keepers than game wardens.  As people free to choose the government they want, New Yorkers deserve the government they get, even an intrusive, over reaching, priggish, controlling, know it all one like that of Mayor Bloomberg.

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         Education Answerposted 11 years agoin reply to this

         Well, I generally agree that you deserve the government you elect.  There are two problems though.  First off, I feel sorry for those who voted against Bloomberg and his ilk.  Much like those of us who did not vote for the POTUS, they suffer.  I guess, with democracy, you have to take the good with the bad; it beats not having a vote.  Also, many states look to New York as an example.  Like it or not, New York sets precedents for the rest of us.  When New York has liberal legislation, it’s like a cancer that starts spreading across the rest of our country.

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            retief2000posted 11 years agoin reply to this

            The greatest difference between Bloomberg and Obama is that you don't have to leave the country to escape Bloomberg.  Currently, Indiana does not look to New York for much more than a Basketball team that needs a beating.  Any state that emulates California or New York deserves the consequences of those disastrous choices.

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   tamronposted 11 years ago

   Now New Yorkers come here to Florida and try to impose their stupid laws here.

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      Barefootfaeposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      I think you can probably trace the social creep from the various bastions of liberalism to other places that tend to be that way too.

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         tamronposted 11 years agoin reply to this

         I am not just saying its just here in Florida.  Its not just New Yorkers that are moving here in Florida.  What I am saying is since the New Yorkers started moving here.  Our taxes went up every year.  Rent is unbelievable!  Car insurance keeps going up.
         
         Every time I have ever talked to a New Yorker.  It New York this New York that.  I got so fed up I finally said.  If New York is so great.  Go back and never come back!

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   paradigmsearchposted 11 years ago

   According to that study, for all intents and purposes, California is just as bad. And it just happens to be where I live. If I wasn't financially trapped, I would depart.

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   Education Answerposted 11 years ago

   Do we really need a study to show this?  Look at the soda debacle.  Look at gun magazines.  The list goes and goes.
   
   Proposed or Actual Laws:
   
   Fat
   http://www.nbcnews.com/id/16051436/
   
   Guns
   http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/16/nyreg … -york.html
   
   Knives
   http://tgace.com/2012/04/12/ny-knife-law/
   
   Salt
   http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/11/business/11salt.html
   
   Smoking
   http://www.health.ny.gov/regulations/pu … tion/1399/
   
   Soda
   http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162- … hats-next/
   
   I guess the whole lack of feedom issue can be applied to many different regions in America.  What we need is a law to abolish a lot of these laws.  Maybe that's not the right way to put it. . .

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   Mighty Momposted 11 years ago

   Did people commenting here even bother to read the article?
   It is specifically about BUSINESS taxes and regulations in the STATE
   of New York.
   Not rank and file citizens of New York City.
   Mayor Bloomberg does not govern the state.
   Which is actually quite large and diverse.
   
   If you asked the average New Yorker if they felt less free than their counterparts across
   the river (WHAT river?  I've driven from NY to CT thousands of times -- never ever heard
   the river referenced here!) they would say "Are you f'ing kidding me?"
   
   No one forces them to root for the Yankees.

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      Education Answerposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Point taken.

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      retief2000posted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Business taxes and regulations never burden "ordinary" people.  Only those ugly green multilegged businessmen are troubled by over reaching government.  Unless you want a 32 ounce pop.

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