Pollution as trespass…
It’s been a while since I’ve been able to do too much reading on the internets, but I managed to catch this little Ron Paul nugget from Hit & Run today…
Imagine that everyone living in one suburb, rather than using regular trash service, were taking their household trash to the next town over and simply tossing it in the yards of those living in the nearby town. Is there any question that legal mechanisms are in place to remedy this action? In principle, your concerns are no different, except that, for a good number of years, legislatures and courts have failed to enforce the property rights of those being dumped on with respect to certain forms of pollution. This form of government failure has persisted since the industrial revolution when, in the name of so-called progress, certain forms of pollution were legally tolerated or ignored to benefit some popular regional employer or politically popular entity.
It’s interesting to see a candidate with such a refined view of property rights. I can even live with the smoke-as-trespass implication. If only I’d gotten around to changing my party affiliation…
December 3rd, 2007 at 10:45 pm
Love it! I am ashamed of myself that I didn’t change my party affiliation either. I knew when the deadline was too. To make up for it, I’m going to drop another donation on Dec.16. The Post reports there is going to be another money bomb then (its the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, or Pahhhty as they say it up there.