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Cake day: October 5th, 2023

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  • I wish they just linked the actual rankings rather than just writing it up. Because, for instance, they point out incarceration for violent and property crimes as a mark against Texas. Is it really against any valuable definition of personal freedom that you can’t murder, rape, and steal with impunity? And the article doesn’t bring up guns whatsoever. I would find it strange if that wasn’t included at all.

    Overall, I usually just find indexes like this to be pretty worthless since they’re never all that transparent about exactly what influences the outcome, and how much. They should be able to back up each and every score with specific legislation that influenced it, and exactly how much (and why) it impacted the overall score.