That sound you're hearing? Our economic freedom and quality of life circling the drain.

The "western" countries had a good run...too bad for such self destruction.

I used to think that I'd end up moving to the USA for the opportunities, but my Canadian homeland is looking better every year.

I used to think that I'd end up moving to the USA for the opportunities, but my Canadian homeland is looking better every year.

That's because the Canadian Government realized it couldn't be every thing to every one. As I understand it they shrank the government some a few years back.

The problem is the Dumocrats and the Repubicans are playing a game and don't realize they are about to become Thelma and Louise.

My taxes are still more than I'd like, but we have no inheritance tax or gift tax. Capital gains are taxed at half the rate of earned income. No capital gains tax when we sell the primary residence. We have a few good things here.

Singapore and Hong Kong may be economically free, but they are not democratically free. Freedom of speech and the press are severely curtailed. Bit of a satanic choice.

Video asks: "the question is, will our quality of life fall with it". Quality of life is already falling in the US. And of course it's because of the massive encroachments on economic (and other) freedom. And of course it's going to fall further still - every day you read about a new encroachment on freedom or some new boondoggle, and almost never the other way around. We're frogs in boiling water so we're not quite noticing but compare American today to America just 10 or 15 years ago and you'll be shocked. From banned lightbulbs to obama's healthcare to the TSA to new police state laws allowing police to raid anyone's home by force to large-scale surveillance and wiretapping to location-tracking of cars to the CPSIA to a morasse of 'occupational licensing requirements' to increasing bans on literally growing and raising food. The cops are literally sending in SWAT teams to homes that are merely "using a high amount of electricity", which is now probable cause, this is absurd on so many levels. And sound money? Ha ha.

The effects are insidious not just in direct and immediate harm to the United States, but in many unseen ways. For example 15 years ago America was the top choice destination for the world's best and brightest and most hard-working entrepreneurs, who could come and experience freedom while helping grow the economy and create jobs. What doesn't show up on the balance sheets and economic figures in obvious ways is that increasingly, the world's best and brightest don't want to move to the USA. They don't want to move to a place where the cops can simply bust down their door and shoot them at night and where they can't travel without being abused and tracked by authorities ... because those are the very things they were trying to escape from. America is no longer a beacon of liberty. The best and brightest have better places to go.

Meanwhile other nations have increasing liberty, even though it might be worse than the US still in absolute terms, the trends are clear - the USA's liberty decreases by the very day, literally, while in places like China it increases by the day.

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