"Be grateful for Seneca"

While Seneca presents itself as a benefactor to the community, the contributions "we the people" make to this private corporation are rarely mentioned.

We provide them with subsidized and grossly undervalued public timber. We buy their biomass generated electricity at three times market rate. We give them huge property tax breaks on their forestlands, which, according to Dept. of Revenue, results in higher property taxes for the rest of us. Since they own over 5,000 acres, we relieve them of paying harvest taxes when they log their own timber. We carry the main burden of repairing the public roads their chip and log trucks pound 7-24. We provide the lions share of fire fighting resources. Etc, etc.

Most importantly, we provide the labor to run the yet un-automated parts of their mill.
In 2014, Seneca was named in a class action lawsuit for chiseling workers wages.

If some of us aren't grateful enough for Seneca, it's probably because we are better informed.