text: You mean you see jobs whose negative externalities are subsidized by taxpayers, in other words, the jobs are basically a form of welfare.
   "In 1999, the Oregon Legislature eliminated this tax on private timber owners with more than 5,000 acres of land, resulting in a drop in state revenue of $70 million a year. Today, the primary tax paid by large industrial forest owners is the Forest Harvest Tax. Funds generated from this tax funds firefighting efforts through the Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) and the Oregon Forest Resources Institute (OFRI) - a quasi-government agency with a mission to promote logging and the lax logging laws we have here in Oregon. Forest Harvest Tax funds do not go to county or state governments to fund services."
  http://www.clearcutoregon.com/private-land.html