Canada, Australia and New Zealand are more free than the United States

**Colin** · 19th April 2010 12:50 PM

Even with our filthy government run health care and bloated welfare systems, according to the most recent Heritage Foundation Index of Economic Freedom.

http://www.heritage.org/index/ranking.aspx

Free: 100 -80%

Mostly Free: 79.9-70%

Partly Free: 69.9-60%

Mostly Unfree: 59.9-50%

Repressed: 49.9-0%

Top 10:

1. Hong Kong - 89.7%

2. Singapore - 86.1%

3. Australia - 82.6%

4. New Zealand - 82.1%

5. Ireland â€“ 81.3%

6. Switzerland â€“ 81.1%

7. Canada â€“ 80.4%

8. United States -78.0%

9. Denmark â€“ 77.9%

10. Chile â€“ 77.2%

Some other notables::

11. United Kingdom â€“ 76.5%

19. Japan â€“ 72.9%

23. Germany â€“ 71.1%

31. South Korea â€“ 69.9%

36. Spain â€“ 69.6%

64. France â€“ 64.2%

65. Saudi Arabia â€“ 64.1%

74. Italy â€“ 62.7%

113. Brazil â€“ 55.6%

124. India - 53.8%

140. China â€“ 51.0%

143. Russia â€“ 50.3%

177. Cuba -26.7%

178. North Korea â€“ 1.0%

**Colin** · 19th April 2010 12:52 PM

[quote name='Colin' date='19 April 2010 - 02:50 PM' timestamp='1271703011' post='141177']

Even with our filthy government run health care and bloated welfare systems, according to the most recent Heritage Foundation Index of Economic Freedom.

Free: 100 -80%

Mostly Free: 79.9-70%

Partly Free: 69.9-60%

Mostly Unfree: 59.9-50%

Repressed: 49.9-0%

Top 10:

1. Hong Kong - 89.7%

2. Singapore - 86.1%

3. Australia - 82.6%

4. New Zealand - 82.1%

5. Ireland -

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i fucked it up how do i delete

**Dr.Knuckles** · 19th April 2010 12:54 PM

Just run with it, noone will notice.

**Colin** · 19th April 2010 12:54 PM

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Just run with it, noone will notice.

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tru

**Colin** · 19th April 2010 01:03 PM

okey fixed

**Davocrat** · 19th April 2010 01:05 PM

Suck it Denmark! You Danes aren't so GREAT now, are ya?

**Davocrat** · 19th April 2010 01:06 PM

Hey, UK, OPPRESS MUCH?!

**michaelr** · 19th April 2010 01:32 PM

Silly little poll, hell it shows Iceland down he list, fuck that, at least they got to vote and tell the bankers to get fucked. We are forced to pay as it becomes our debt, and well you don't tell the federal reserve no, they shoot real bullets.

#18 Iceland

73.7

-2.2

**Davocrat** · 19th April 2010 01:34 PM

[quote name='michaelr' date='19 April 2010 - 03:32 PM' timestamp='1271705572' post='141190']

Silly little poll, hell it shows Iceland down he list, fuck that, at least they got to vote and tell the bankers to get fucked. We are forced to pay as it becomes our debt, and well you don't tell the federal reserve no, they shoot real bullets.

#18 Iceland

73.7

-2.2

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I don't remember having to send any checks.

**Sparta** · 19th April 2010 01:34 PM

I took a quick look at the benchmarks used to calculate the findings and I'd be a bit more comfortable with an 80 rating than a 100 rating. It looks to me as though costs associated with regulation has something to do with pulling the rating down.