In the two competing indices of economic freedom, the US is either the tenth (Heritage/WSJ) or third (Fraser Institute) freest among the nations of the world. But as Paul Craig Roberts points out here the US shouldn’t really be described as “free.” He gives two pretty compelling reasons for saying that: the high rates of taxation that Americans face, and the increasing difficulty in obtaining justice from a legal system stacked with government-friendly administrative procedures.
We are no doubt freer than, say, the French, the Russians, or the Myanmarians (nee Burmese), but that’s not the same thing as being free.
