It is interesting that this study focuses so much on matters of concern to libertarians.
Some of these results are a tad obsolete for Texas as the result of the just completed legislative session, which should raise Texas a couple of positions on the personal freedom ranking. On the other hand, the fiscal situation in California has dramatically deteriorated. I can quibble with some of the criteria, and it is difficult to apply them to a state like Alaska that actually pays a dividend to its citizens from oil revenues. Missing from the analysis is of the efficiency of state and local government. From my observations of state and local government, especially in California and Texas, I can testify the disparities are dramatic. I generally conclude that Texas state agencies get as much as three times as much done as California state agencies for the same amount of money. I also note that in Texas computer-related projects and contracts invariably come in on time and under budget, while in California they seem to fail as often as not. Texas computer project managers are computer experts, whereas California project managers are political appointees with little or no computer expertise. Nevada state agencies are efficient in large part because a very large part of their revenues are from grants from private foundations. Jacob Roginsky wrote: > http://www.mercatus.org/uploadedFiles/Mercatus/Publications/Freedom%20in%20the%2050%20States.pdf > -- Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------- Constitution Society 2900 W Anderson Ln C-200-322, Austin, TX 78757 512/299-5001 www.constitution.org [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------- [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
