IT is the ultimate contradiction.

Sell the merits of a tax break that creates a false market and then later profit from the inevitable demise of companies set up on the back of it.

Here is how to go about it.

Spruik the merits of a managed investment scheme tax-break policy for the best part of a decade. Sing from the rooftops of the riches that will surely flow from city funds into the pitiful rural regions.

Now, sit back and watch as billions of dollars flow into the badly planned investment projects.

Carefully observe the death of small communities as farming families leave the district and monocultures take over the countryside.

See the disappointment on the face of a young farmer who finds land prices have been inflated and he or she has no hope of getting into the game while the MIS companies are on the hunt.

Watch as the hopelessly oversupplied woodchip market inevitably fails and the companies come crashing down, robbing investors of their life savings.

Sit back as foreign investors swoop and take huge parcels of land rushed to sale by hungry liquidators - and the biggest parcels of land ever sold in this country are sent overseas for a song despite the protests of the Victorian Farmers Federation and other groups who wanted the land sold in farm-size blocks.

And here is yet another financial opportunity borne of this ridiculous policy.

A nice slice of western Victoria is there for the taking.

Take a good look at the real market value of the trees. Bring in the bulldozers and flatten them. It is the only realistic thing to do, after all. Sell off the farms for a tidy profit.

Now return to spruiking the wonderful benefits of MIS policy, and wait for the next lot of stupid city investors to get on board.

Every politician must aim to get rid of this destructive joke of a policy.

And every taxpayer must demand they do it now.