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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: koan who wrote (760069)12/29/2013 3:21:29 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1575209
 
The reason you cannot name a country more free than ours is that it is impossible to have the type of freedom you want when 330 million people live together, without anarchy.

Nonsense. The US was freer, even as recently as before Obama, and more so further in the past, without ever having anarchy.

As for countries more free than the US -

The US is tenth in Heritage's Index of Economic Freedom, 17th in the Frazer institute's study of economic freedom, 32nd in the Press Freedom Index put out by reporters without borders (down from 17th just over a decade ago, personally I think this is an under-ranking, but I probably wouldn't place the US first), forth in the freedom index at freeexistence.org (if you give all criteria equal weights), 4th in the east of doing business index put out by the World Bank, 19th in the trade report put out by the World Economic Forum (although that list includes some things that don't fall under freedom), and tied for 22nd in the Freedom of the Press report put out by Freedom House.

And the myth that pure capitalism can replace social planning.

The myth is that central planning can effectively substitute for the free market. Of course its not just economic freedom where the US needs to improve.
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