Heritage Economic Freedom Rankings

Boyes describes the growth of government in US society. This growth is further documented by the Heritage Economic Freedom rankings.

The US continues a slide in economic freedom:

Weaknesses remain in fiscal freedom and government size. Total government spending equals more than a third of GDP. Corporate and personal taxes are high and increasingly uncompetitive. In 2008, the sub-prime mortgage crisis had far-reaching effects, and the government's unprecedented interventionist measures could severely undermine economic freedom in the future.

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