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$8,000 tax credit program
I received the NAR’s Call to Action concerning the current $8,000 tax credit program this morning. I chose to not answer the call. Here is why. Although I feel the current program has been helpful and that it should be continued, this call is open ended. It asks that the program be extended (OK) and “expanded” but does not define what “expanded” means not does it say why the expansion (whatever that would be) would be in the best interest of the industry and the country.
I cannot endorse undefined policy. If NAR wants us as industry representatives – both REALTOR and Affiliate Partner — to support something, then the call should be defined in detail so we can ask our representatives to do something specific.
So, let the call to action be to contact NAR (which I am also doing) to refine the call and make is something we can feel comfortable supporting.
Tom M.
September 15th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
Good idea. I think we all should let our
opinions be know and not go along with those
“experts” who sometimes speak for us.
November 22nd, 2009 at 12:57 pm
To some, this just represents business paying its fair share and political figures often direct voter scorn toward the business sector claiming that businesses are not carrying enough of the tax burden. But only people pay taxes, not businesses, and such rhetoric disguises the truth of this hidden tax cost. Business taxes are, in reality, always passed along to consumers and/or workers. Business tax costs are commonly paid for by charging consumers more for the product or service, or by depressing employee wages and benefits. Typically, it is a combination of the two strategies that is used to pay required business tax costs.