Soft tyranny...

Soft tyranny...  Dan Mitchell has come up with an objective way to measure the “soft tyranny” of individual U.S. states.  It's summarized in the resulting chart at right (click to embiggen).  California is #49.  Yikes!

I loved the first comment, from “Ned”:

Please don’t publish this data again.

I’m from Massachusetts and I don’t want our legislators to know they are not the worst!