The Mercatus Center has published a report on which states impose the most regulations on their citizens.  We almost fell out of our recliners when we saw the amount of red tape some states impose. Yes, we know California is a very big state, but 420,000 state and local regs on the books? That’s probably more dictates than are on the registers in Moscow.

The four most over-regulated states – starting with California – are New York, New Jersey and Illinois. All blue states that also happen to be the places losing millions of residents and hundreds of billions in personal income.

We have a crazy idea. Repeal all these rules and replace them with just one golden rule: don’t tread on me.