{"id":14310,"date":"2023-11-25T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/?p=14310"},"modified":"2024-09-23T23:22:39","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T05:22:39","slug":"cato-institute-ranks-idaho-14th-in-personal-and-economic-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/cato-institute-ranks-idaho-14th-in-personal-and-economic-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Cato Institute Ranks Idaho 14th in Personal and Economic Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Well folks, the verdict is in, and we now know where Idaho stands in both personal and economic freedoms within the 50 states and to many this will be a surprise. Idaho was ranked 14 in overall personal and economic freedoms and that is down one notch from last year’s rating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have broken out Idaho’s rankings from the Cato Institute Site and below you will find a link to go directly to this survey:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.freedominthe50states.org\/economic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cato’s rankings for Idaho:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

#7 Economic Freedom<\/strong> – includes fiscal and regulatory policy across a variety of categories including state and local taxation, land-use, and health insurance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

#49 Personal Freedom<\/strong> – Personal freedom includes a variety of categories including victimless crimes, guns, tobacco, and education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

#46 Incarceration and Arrests<\/strong> – The incarceration and arrests category includes incarceration rates, non-drug crime arrests, and drug enforcement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

#44 Gambling Freedom<\/strong> – The gambling category includes an estimated cost of gambling restrictions and whether social or online gaming is allowed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

#3 Gun Rights<\/strong> – The gun rights category measures the direct costs of gun laws to gun owners and dealers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

#7 Tobacco Freedom<\/strong> – The tobacco category includes taxes on tobacco, smoking bans, Internet bans, and vending machine regulations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

#28 Marriage Freedom<\/strong> – The marriage category includes the ability for couples to enter into private contracts, both civil unions or marriage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

#30 Educational Freedom<\/strong> – The education category takes into account requirements and restrictions for private and homeschools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

#39 Cannabis & Salvia Freedom<\/strong> – This category includes an index of medical marijuana policies and other policy variables.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

#49 Alcohol Freedom<\/strong> – The alcohol category includes restrictions on distribution, taxes, blue laws, keg registrations, and “happy hour” bans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

#25 Asset Forfeiture<\/strong> – Civil asset forfeiture is the government’s ability to take a person’s property by accusing him or her of a crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

#24 Travel Freedom<\/strong> – This category includes seat belt laws, helmet laws, mandatory insurance coverage, and cell phone usage laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

#18 Campaign and Finance Freedom<\/strong> – This category covers public financing of campaigns and contribution limits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We encourage you to visit the Cato website above to get all the details on this survey.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well folks, the verdict is in, and we now know where Idaho stands in both personal and economic freedoms within the 50 states and to many this will be a surprise. Idaho was ranked 14 in overall personal and economic freedoms and that is down one notch from last year’s rating. We have broken out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14312,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[243],"tags":[1402,348],"class_list":["post-14310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinions-op-eds","tag-cato","tag-idaho","cat-243-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14311,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14310\/revisions\/14311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}