The Cato Institute is about as unbiased as Think Progress.
didn't realize it was a Koch brothers thing.
I just saw it was a libertarian think tank, so I assumed it was well libertarian.
But even if it's a Koch puppet I think as long as it's methodology was sound the fact that they have NY as the least free (or presumably in their case most progressive?) is likely not a good thing. Being near the extreme wings of things usually isn't idea
And some of their key points had to do with NYS extreme taxing, spending, and absurd amount of debt. I don't think anyone could argue those aren't all real and significant problems