As the power, scope, and cost of government expand, economic freedom shrinks. In this piece, Hans Bader of CEI writes about the latest bad news about where the US ranks compared with other nations. We’ve been falling ever since 2000 and if anything at all is clear it is that Obama’s statist agenda will keep driving us down.
Obama insists that the US needs to be #1 in the world when it comes to college graduates (a silly notion since so many Americans learn little while in college and end up doing jobs that call for no advanced education) but he doesn’t see or care that declining economic freedom has serious consequences.
