The logging industry needs a more direct line to the subsidies made available to it. It’s ridiculous that the subsidies are imagined to be disguised when every switched on logger knows that they are there and finding their way right into their income column.
Taxpayers also know that subsidies are going into the logging industry's coffers. It’s a deserving cause and there is no need to pretend that it isn’t. MIS investors seem happy enough with the arrangements by which plantations can help the logging industry out.
If it looks like money is being burnt, don’t worry. Now while there is a scorching smell in the air, little or no money is lost or at least it isn’t without there being some kind of backhander.
Now Paul and Bob have exposed the wood supply agreement for the proposed pulp mill. There was nothing to hide. It’s all out in the open but it’s not so clear just how the increased subsidies the logging industry needs will be delivered.
The need is urgent. Loggers need more money more quickly in order to get the harvest in before someone calls time out and everything changes.
Invest now in plantations so that the logging industry can get on with creating JOBS, JOBS, JOBS … or generating DIVIDENDS, DIVIDENDS, DIVIDENDS, … or buying TAXES BREAKS, TAXES BREAKS, TAXES BREAKS, … or whatever, depending on where it is in the food chain you happen to be ranked.
And, what about John and Erica Citizen? Now that’s a question that’d be best addressed to them.
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Without subsidies our industry couldn't even afford to take away Tassie's trees, let alone pulp them.
You're right about needing more subsidies. We need subsidised cable logging access to the SW Wilderness which otherwise might never be fully utilised.
Let's get on the case.
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