One benefit of being a United States citizen has been the ability to have a US passport that facilitates the maximum amount of travel freedom around the world. Those days are in the past.

Twenty years back, the US passport was in the top rank in the world, along with Denmark and Finland, for visa-free of vias-on-demand travel. Now it trails behind the passports of 36 other nations. Maureen O’Hare provided the details in a Tuesday CNN article you can read here.

Reprinted with permission from the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity.