{"id":2631060,"date":"2026-07-17T08:26:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T12:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnbc-best-states-to-live-in-mutilate-kids-free-criminals-take-all-your-money\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T08:33:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T12:33:23","slug":"cnbc-best-states-to-live-in-mutilate-kids-free-criminals-take-all-your-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnbc-best-states-to-live-in-mutilate-kids-free-criminals-take-all-your-money\/","title":{"rendered":"According to CNBC: \u2018Best States\u2019 Mutilate Kids and Free Criminals"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcnbc-best-states-to-live-in-mutilate-kids-free-criminals-take-all-your-money%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2631060&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article critiques CNBC\u2019s 2026 ranking of the best states to live in, arguing that the list is biased and reflects left-leaning societal preferences rather than objective measures of opportunity and security. While the ranking claims to use data on crime, air quality, healthcare, and childcare costs, it heavily incorporates subjective assessments of inclusiveness, labor laws, and reproductive rights, sourced from organizations with apparent political biases. Consequently, states that resist progressive social policies, such as restrictions on abortion or conservative cultural values, tend to rank lower.<\/p>\n<p>The author contends that this approach promotes a societal vision aligned with increased government mandates, social engineering, and coastal elite values, which mirrors European social models that hinder economic growth. Examples from Europe and Poland illustrate how more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/imf-says-risks-to-financial-stability-have-increased-calls-for-vigilance\/\" title=\"IMF says risks to financial stability have increased, calls for vigilance\">market-oriented reforms<\/a> lead to stronger economies and higher living standards.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the article emphasizes that americans are increasingly migrating to red states like Texas, Florida, South Carolina, and Tennessee, which offer affordable housing, job opportunities, and policies focused on results rather than ideological virtue signaling. It criticizes the rankingS reliance on metrics that overlook fundamental realities such as family stability, community values, and economic vitality.<\/p>\n<p>the piece asserts that longevity and prosperity depend on policies fostering growth and opportunity, especially in conservative-led states, and that CNBC\u2019s rankings misrepresent this reality by prioritizing social preferences over practical benefits.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/07\/11\/best-states-to-live-in-america-2026.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">headline on CNBC\u2019s shiny new 2026 list<\/a> screams, \u201cBest States to Live In,\u201d complete with glossy profiles of high-\u201cinclusiveness\u201d northern enclaves. Don\u2019t be fooled. This isn\u2019t an objective guide for families seeking opportunity and security. It\u2019s the \u201cQuality-of-Life-according-to-leftists\u201d sliver of CNBC\u2019s business competitiveness study. It\u2019s propaganda repackaged as gospel for where Americans should want to raise kids and build lives.<\/p>\n<p>The methodology reveals the game. CNBC touts \u201chard data\u201d on crime, air quality, health-care access, and childcare costs. Fair enough on the raw numbers. But the \u201cevidence\u201d is layered in heavy subjective scoring for \u201cinclusiveness of state laws,\u201d worker protections (such as paid-leave mandates and laws favoring labor unions), and the ability to kill the unborn without restrictions. Not to mention they are sourced from outlets including Guttmacher and Oxfam which\u00a0wear their leftist priors on their sleeves.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, states resisting expansive abortion frameworks and\u00a0diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies get docked. The result? A neat political map: Vermont, New Jersey, Maine, Minnesota, and company at the top; Tennessee, Texas, Indiana, Louisiana, and red-leaning Southern states scraping the bottom.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t neutral analysis. It\u2019s a preference ranking for one vision of society \u2014 more mandates, more government levers on social issues, more alignment with coastal elite values. It directly echoes the European social model that delivers security for insiders today at the cost of compounded stagnation tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>CNBC\u2019s \u201cinclusiveness\u201d rankings penalize policies that some 75 percent of Americans support. Such policies protect minors from gender mutilation and sterilize them for life. The ranking also gives demerits to states that restrict abortions for minors without parental consent, while giving thumbs up for discriminating against Christian adoptive parents. These are out of step with revealed preferences on culture, governance, opportunity, and actual migration.<\/p>\n<p>Overseas patterns reveal the policy differences in stark terms. France and the United Kingdom, with their heavier worker protections, higher taxes, and regulatory thickets, have limped along with anemic growth for years. Poland, embracing more market-oriented reforms after communism and European Union accession in 1991, rocketed from roughly half the EU average gross domestic product per capita to around 80 percent today. After developing a more-capitalist model, it became a trillion-dollar economy with stronger growth, attracting investment and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-bidenomics-brief\/\" title=\"Bidenomics in a nutshell\">delivering rising living standards<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The bottom-line lesson: Small differences in annual growth compound into massive gaps in wages, innovation, pensions, and national vitality over decades. European-like \u201cprotections\u201d lead to economic sclerosis. The leftists who complain most about \u201cunaffordability\u201d are the very ones driving unaffordability with socialist policies. They then keep the unaffordability cycle going by enacting social-welfare policies to deal with the failures of previous social-welfare policies. The same pattern repeats here in the United States. CNBC\u2019s \u201cbest\u201d states for living often feature slower job growth, higher costs, and net domestic out-migration. Texas alone added tens of thousands of net domestic migrants in recent periods while <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >posting blockbuster absolute job gains<\/a>. Florida, the Carolinas, Tennessee \u2014 CNBC\u2019s doghouse \u2014 keep winning the real-world contest.<\/p>\n<p>Americans aren\u2019t fleeing to Vermont <em>en masse<\/em>. They\u2019re heading where housing is more attainable, jobs are plentiful, taxes are lower, and governments prioritize results over DEI virtue signaling.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t new. CNBC does this trick every year: blue states crowned \u201cbest,\u201d red Sun Belt states labeled deficient \u2014 while in real life, Americans flood into Texas, Florida, South Carolina, and Tennessee while fleeing Massachusetts, Colorado, and Washington. The 2026 list repeated the error with updated numbers but the same bias.<\/p>\n<p>Crime metrics ignore well-documented demographic realities (such as FBI data on violent offending patterns). \u201cInclusiveness\u201d rewards policies that many parents reject, such as bypassing consent on explicit instructional material for minors. Health and childcare stats get filtered through a lens that downplays family structure and culture.<\/p>\n<p>True livability isn\u2019t a United Health Foundation survey or Guttmacher score. It\u2019s where families can afford a home, kids can grow up safe, parents can find work without endless mandates, and communities reflect shared values rather than top-down social engineering. Migration data, business expansion, family formation rates, and long-run income growth tell the story CNBC\u2019s fantasy index obscures.<\/p>\n<p>Red state governance wins because it delivers consistent standard of living improvement that matters for the next generation\u2014not the static \u201cprotections\u201d that trade dynamism for a false comfort.<\/p>\n<p>CNBC will no doubt keep polishing its leftist wish list and then slapping the \u201cbest states to live\u201d label on it. Meanwhile, Americans will keep seeking opportunity elsewhere. The feet don\u2019t lie, even if the rankings do.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p>      Chuck DeVore is chief national initiatives officer at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a former California legislator, and a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel. He&#8217;s the author of <a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0BGNKPTLR\">\u201cThe Crisis of the House Never United\u2014A Novel of Early America.\u201d <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNBC\u2019s 2026 \u201cBest States\u201d list favors leftist social policies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":563,"featured_media":2631061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Northeast_Portland_homeless_camp_tents-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[40602,33010,4247,47410],"class_list":["post-2631060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-crime-rates","tag-criminal-justice","tag-kids","tag-state-rankings"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Northeast_Portland_homeless_camp_tents-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/563"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2631060"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2631065,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631060\/revisions\/2631065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2631061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2631060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2631060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2631060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}