To: long-gone who wrote (75107 ) 8/16/2001 6:05:04 PM From: E. Charters Read Replies (1) | Respond to BC does auction treelands. You bid on plots against other firms when they become available. The suggested amounts of stumpage are the minimums. This is how it works. NOBODY actually PAYS the MINIMUMS. I have done this. raise the minimums . This is the typical US socialist model coming from a socialist economic principal of free, not protected trade. It was the Keynesian economists who suggested that free trade was the best idea, not John Stuart Mill or Adam Smith. During the time of Mill and Smith, the US depended on internal tariffs to protect its industries, its currency, and PAY ALL GOV'T costs. The Jefferson gov't in 1801 operated with no internal tax except excise, and made a surplus! Because of low debt and the customs of the people it did not need tax and social welfare. all its trade will be less efficient. It MUST lower its currency exchange in order to export, and thus BECOME an exporting nation! And it has little choice but to export raw materials that do not suffer from inherent manufacturing scale and domestic development scale problems. Exchange rates. The lower Canadian dollar is causing the prices to be cheaper. Can it be anything else? Has softwood from Canada always been cheaper? We would want the higher price would we not? Would we be able to undercut wood? Wouldn't this effect have been seen in the past? Haven't we been selling softwood lumber worldwide for centuries? Why hasn't anyone complained before? Because they needed the timber and it ISN'T high cost. It's cheap! as with most resources it cost nature a hell of a lot more to grow it than we charge for it in any country. protected production have killed them off!
