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COPYRIGHT 2004 Investor's Business Daily, Inc.
Prosperity: The most economically free state in the country, Kansas, is a red Bush state. A meaningless statistic? The top six are red states, as are 24 of the top 26.
The least economically free states? They are, in descending order, New York, California, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Minnesota -- blue Kerry states, all.
What to make of these rankings compiled by the Pacific Research Institute's U.S. Economic Freedom Index: 2004 Report?
The first thing...
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