Re: Canadian stumpage fees too low (ggggggggggggggg)AKA the U.S. government charges your industry more than the Canadians, and your lumber guys are crying to mommy about it,...so your government listens to the U.S. lumber lobby which squeals like the big porkers they are, every time they experience real competition and says let's screw the U.S. consumer and jack up the lumber prices so we can save a few jobs in the lumber industry. As your intelligent politicians proceed down the road of raising raw material prices for this industry, you will cool another area of your economy that currently is still producing jobs, revenue and profits,... the homebuilding industry and the Home Depot type stores. Makes perfect sense to you Americans I guess.
The simple fact of the matter is the Canadian governments do not charge as much to cut down Canadian trees on government owned land in relative terms, than the American governments do. Stumpage fees are just another form of bullchit government tax we all must live with, and a redneck like you should want to get rid of such B.S. taxes. I guess you aren't as much as a redneck as I thought you were.
The only thing the governments should be doing is to make sure the lumber industries replant the trees, and return the environment back to the way it was before they cut down the trees, and the companies should be monitored by the government to ensure this happens, and this government monitoring and research should be paid for by the stumpage fees. What is the U.S. government using all the excess stumpage fees they charge your domestic producers for?,...perhaps that is the question you should be asking your government, rather than harassing your Canadian neighbors.
The Canadian negotiator your government will be dealing with this time is a Canadian hothead called Pettigrew,...should be a good fight, and if your homebuilding and lumber retailers lobby groups come to the party this time your forestry lobby porkers squealing may get drowned out. It's only the first inning. |
