Liberty Index

How the Liberty Index Scores Act and Grades Legislators

and the Governor.

Each Act is Scored as For or Against Liberty and Tiers are

assigned depending on impact and importance of the Act.

Tier 0 No Impact on Liberty, for example, bridge or road

namings

Tier 1 Small Impact on Liberty (+ or –) 1

Tier 2 Moderate Impact on Liberty (+ or –) 25

Tier 3 High Impact on Liberty (+ or –) 50 most

appropriations bills

If a bill is scored Tier 1, “For Liberty”, then a vote “yes”

will add 1 point to legislator’s or governor’s grade and a
“no” vote will deduct 1 point from the grade.

If the bill is scored Tier 1, “Against Liberty”, then a “yes”

vote will deduct 1 point from the grade and a “no” vote
will add 1 point to the grade.

And so on for each Tier

Special Note on Scoring of Licensing Acts

Constitutional Limited Government based on the Rule of

Law advocates are well aware that there is a need for a
“traffic cop” to prevent harm by fraud and force to one
citizen by another.
There is an argument that all licensing of professions is against
Liberty because Liberty does not only mean freedom from
unauthorized physical restraint, but embraces also the freedom
an individual to use and enjoy his faculties in lawful ways, acquire
useful knowledge, marry, establish a home, and bring up children,
worship God according to dictates of conscience, live and work
where he chooses, engage in any of the common and lawful
occupations of life, enter into all contracts which may be
necessary and proper to exercising these rights and generally to
enjoy these privileges long recognized at common law, the
“Rights of Englishmen” for which the American Revolution was
fought, as essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness of a free
people in a free society.

Professional organizations, like other bureaucracies and

government itself, have their own interests, values and dynamics
that may or may not advance individual freedom, or even achieve
the intended purposes of protecting the common wealth.
Licensing by professional organizations, necessarily, reduces
competition protecting incumbents and supports the professional
licensing bureaucracy itself. Continuing professional education is
a goldmine for licensed providers.

Nevertheless, licensing is so embedded in our society that radical

termination would be disruptive and disorderly so incremental
lifting of restraints and barriers on entering professions,
businesses and working are to be encouraged as an unalienable
right as well as for mutual benefit of all who want to engage
services of service provider.

Special Note on Scoring of Bridge and Road Naming.

All these votes are scored as Tier 0, no impact on Liberty, but I

cannot help note that names are those with military rank and I
have to think they served our country and some gave the last full
measure of devotion and it is fitting and decent that their service
and sacrifice be recognized.