Agent 99 Wrote:
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> It certainly is outsourcing......and economics. We
> want to be part of a "world economy" then this is
> what happens. If its cheaper/easier/fewer
> regulations/lower taxes to process lumber in
> another location (country) then that's where the
> processing goes.....because if they don't a
> competitor will, then undercut their prices and
> they'll be out of business completely.
> An uncomfortable truth but the only other option
> is market controls - which sorta starts to sound
> like Socialism - and apparently most in this
> country don't want that either. So which is it?
>
> 99 out

There is another way ....... how about we (1) cut our corporate tax rates, (2) make more timber available from public lands, (3) streamline all the environmental regs ...... etc, etc.