Huang Jui-hsiang, a section chief at Taipei City Government's Bureau of Reconstruction, which is responsible for dealing with pine disease in Taipei City, says that what the city government spends on removing diseased trees is a pittance compared with other areas of expenditure, "but this money is just spent on carting away the corpses, not on solving the basic problem."
負責處理台北市松樹病害的台北市政府建設局科長黃瑞祥也說，砍除病樹的開支，比之其他工程，杯水車薪，「但這些錢花來收屍，並沒有解決問題。」