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If these wooklots are actually Christmas tree farms, then the owners will get 2 tax credits. Christmas trees already get a break until they actually harvest them. The trees aren't being raised for lumber, but will only be there for a few years.

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While it doesn't apply to rural communities as much as larger ones, there is a problem when viable businesses close down and open up inside a prison using extremely low wage workers. Not only does it hurt local communities and their citizens, it gives an unfair advantage when competing with businesses on the outside. This has actually happened, so it's not just a hypothetical issue. The business employed union workers, who lost their jobs to prisoners.

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