{"id":24598,"date":"2017-10-30T11:52:08","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T15:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=24598"},"modified":"2017-10-30T11:55:54","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T15:55:54","slug":"image-of-the-day-more-freedom-more-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/24598\/image-of-the-day-more-freedom-more-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Image of the Day:  More Freedom, More Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve often <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/54-state-of-affairs\/3491-economic-freedom-index-us-plummeted-from-6th-to-17th-under-obama\" target=\"_blank\">highlighted<\/a> the direct statistical relationship between economic freedom and prosperity, but typically the comparison is between countries.\u00a0 Courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercatus.org\/commentary\/if-we-want-more-economic-growth-we-need-more-economic-freedom?utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=commentary&amp;utm_campaign=SLPP\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Millsap<\/a> of George Mason University&#8217;s Mercatus Center, however, we can visualize the same freedom\/prosperity relationship among individual U.S. states.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" title=\"More Freedom, More Growth\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mercatus.org\/sites\/default\/files\/millsapforbes1_0.jpg\" alt=\"More Freedom, More Growth\" width=\"538\" height=\"289\" \/><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>To paraphrase Dr. John Lott, more freedom, more growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve often highlighted the direct statistical relationship between economic freedom and prosperity, but typically the comparison is between countries.\u00a0 Courtesy of Adam Millsap of George Mason University&#8217;s Mercatus Center, however, we can visualize the same freedom\/prosperity relationship among individual U.S. states. . . To paraphrase Dr. John Lott, more freedom, more growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2003,4888,1137,1912,71],"class_list":["post-24598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-deregulation","tag-economic-freedom","tag-freedom","tag-states","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24598"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24604,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24598\/revisions\/24604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}