In the study PwC suggests that “....the fiscal 2004 direct costs of $369.7 million multiplied 2.17 times through the economy into over $803.2 million in total activity.
Direct costs are things the CWB pays for to handle and market your grain – freight (above what you pay), terminal handling, storage, inventory financing, and so forth.
What they don’t say is that all this economic activity would occur WITHOUT THE CWB.
They also add as “economic benefit” of “tax generation” from the $369.7 million in direct costs – a total of about $183.0 million. Again – would occur WITHOUT THE CWB.
Also – they add the “economic value of the “premiums” to farmers. PwC indicates the premiums earned are $312.6 million and the economic “impact” is $632.2 million.
They indicate that “These premiums were derived from Performance Evaluation of the CWB, The CWB and Barley Marketing, Price Pooling and Single-Desk Selling Report and Benchmarks to Measure CWB’s Performance as detailed in Appendix A.”
Appendix A is not available on the CWB website – and they aren’t answering requests for it.
There’s other stuff indicating great economic benefit. But it all comes down to (1) economic activity that would occur WITHOUT THE CWB, and (2) premiums that REAL evidence indicates are not there.
To present this in this way – suggesting the CWB is responsible for this economic activity OCCURING – is absolutely and totally misleading. PwC should be ashamed and embarrassed.
Direct costs are things the CWB pays for to handle and market your grain – freight (above what you pay), terminal handling, storage, inventory financing, and so forth.
What they don’t say is that all this economic activity would occur WITHOUT THE CWB.
They also add as “economic benefit” of “tax generation” from the $369.7 million in direct costs – a total of about $183.0 million. Again – would occur WITHOUT THE CWB.
Also – they add the “economic value of the “premiums” to farmers. PwC indicates the premiums earned are $312.6 million and the economic “impact” is $632.2 million.
They indicate that “These premiums were derived from Performance Evaluation of the CWB, The CWB and Barley Marketing, Price Pooling and Single-Desk Selling Report and Benchmarks to Measure CWB’s Performance as detailed in Appendix A.”
Appendix A is not available on the CWB website – and they aren’t answering requests for it.
There’s other stuff indicating great economic benefit. But it all comes down to (1) economic activity that would occur WITHOUT THE CWB, and (2) premiums that REAL evidence indicates are not there.
To present this in this way – suggesting the CWB is responsible for this economic activity OCCURING – is absolutely and totally misleading. PwC should be ashamed and embarrassed.
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