Paul stands up for property rights
Activism Thursday, October 13th, 2011
By PAULA TRACY, New Hampshire Union Leader
ORFORD — Texas Congressman and Presidential candidate Ron Paul said if he were asked to sign a Presidential Permit required for the Northern Pass proposed transmission line, he would not do it.
“It’s a states’ issue and a property rights’ issue,” said Paul, who came to the Thomson Family Tree Farm Wednesday to sign the Thomson Presidential Pledge, thereby agreeing to cut taxes if elected.
He was asked by Tom Thomson, son of the late former Gov. Meldrim Thomson known for his motto “Ax the Tax” whether if as President he would sign the permit needed for the project to bring Hydro-Quebec power across the Canadian border into New Hampshire.
“I wouldn’t sign it. I wouldn’t give the permit,” he said. Private property rights are “really basic to solving our problems.” He said in his home state of Texas, where drilling for oil is the norm, there are strict property rights’ laws that he supports.
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