It's pretty simple to me: writers are the ones who write the stories. A story can only benefit from a good beta and so I generally try to use a beta, but a beta can't make a bad story any better. She may fix up shitty grammar/spelling/sentence structure/canon details, but there's more to a story than the words it's written in. Those come from the writer, not the beta.
Although I think that a beta can make a bad story better - or at least point in the direction... I fondly remember a handful of 'rewrite *that* and *that* because it sucks/makes no sense' comments that were really spot-on. Ok, make that a beta can make a mediocre story better. If it's bad to the core, there's probably not much hope (I beta read for a certain site a while back, and there were a handful of stories where 'scrap and write something else' was the only honest response...
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