Looking for the “land of the free”? Try Estonia.
OR IRELAND. OR CHILE. OR DENMARK. OR EVEN ICELAND. These countries now offer more economic freedom than the United States.
Long a symbol of economic prosperity and might, America for the first time ever no longer ranks among the top 10 “free” nations of the world, according to the 2005 Index of Economic Freedom.
Says the The Wall Street Journal and The Heritage Foundation 2005 Index of Economic Freedom.
About India:
India’s fiscal burden of government score is 0.5 point worse this year, but its government intervention score is 0.5 point better. As a result, India’s overall score is unchanged this year.
Today’s Indian Express story on this: India ‘mostly unfree’, ranks 118 in a list of 155 nations
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