Alexis de Tocqueville once wrote, "He who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self is made to be a slave." Tocqueville's observation about the French Revolution sets the tone for the Human Freedom Index (HFI), a new report that offers a comprehensive measure of freedom around the world with country-by-country comparisons.
The HFI is a joint venture of the Cato Institute, Canada's Fraser Institute and the Swiss-based Liberales Institut at the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom. The report examines 152 countries and ranks them on 76 different indicators of personal and economic freedom. Though the inaugural report uses data from 2012, the authors said the report would be updated annually as new information becomes available.
A new report by the Center for State Fiscal Reform at the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) highlights states that are spurring economic growth by cutting taxes.
The report highlights a number of states that have qualified for all three editions of ALEC's "State Tax Cut Roundup." These four states — Florida, Indiana, Ohio and Wisconsin — have cut taxes consistently year after year.
