Rating | States |
7 | None |
6 | South Dakota |
5 | Florida, Nevada, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington |
4 | Alaska, Arizona, Delaware, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Wyoming |
3 | Arkansas, California, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Louisiana, Maine, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah |
2 | Alabama, Colorado, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Nebraska, New Jersey, Ohio, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin |
1 | Connecticut, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina |
0 | Hawaii |
Rating | Source |
Income and Sales tax and supermajority requirements | Americans for Tax Reform |
Concealed carry rating | Handgun Control, Inc. Also check out this alternate rating guide put out by the Citizen's Committee for the right to Keep and Bear Arms. For more information, check out the NRA 's Right-to-Carry Fact Sheet and Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Guide |
Pre-emption laws | National Rifle Association |
Ballot Initiatives | Ballot Initiative Strategy Center |
Cato Rating for governor | Cato Policy Analysis No. 391. Fiscal Policy Report Card on America's Governors: 2000, by Stephen Moore and Stephen Slivinski (February 12, 2001) |
Home schooling regulations | The Economist, 6/6-12/98 (from Home School Legal Defense Association) |
Rate per million of Separation signers | Separation of School & State Alliance (current as of 2/28/03) |
Percentage of state owned by Federal Government |
State by State Government Land Ownership table, by National
Wilderness Institute |
The other columns, think tank, Cato governor rating, home schooling regulations, and Separation rate, were not considered significant enough to warrant a plus or minus.
Future ratings might include percentage of voters who are libertarian, and percentage of voters who voted Libertarian in the last presidential election.
MiscellaneousOnly the latest fiscal policy report card from the Cato Institute is included in the table above. Click here to see all the report cards done so far.
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