The $8000 first time home buyer tax credit is a mistake. Congress should have enacted the original idea: a $15,000 tax credit. This goes for the repeat home buyer tax credit as well. As a matter of fact, I would like to have seen both tax credits even higher. If you’ll maintain an open mind for the next few minutes, I hope to show you how embracing these tax credits actually creates a “win-win” situation that benefits you and this great nation.
The inherent spirit of humankind is individualistic, creative and inclined toward action. The heart of man is inexorably drawn toward freedom: freedom to live, freedom to express and freedom to choose. No matter what short-term damage is effected by an oppressor or institutionalized by a government, men and women will devise ways to rebuild and overcome. Even in countries where the idea of freedom has been systematically driven out by force, we witness people taking action toward freedom. It is a natural state that can be delayed, but not denied. We are DOERs. This country, the United States of America, is the poster child for taking action toward freedom. We are a nation made up of DOERs.
So what does this have to do with the tax credit? It empowers us with a “win-win” opportunity. The immoral bribes to home buyers, the unconstitutional mandate for health insurance, the socialistic bail-outs, even the very destruction wrought by stimulus packages: embrace them all! These are all opportunities to make that “win-win” choice. Embrace the home buyer’s credit and ACT on it! Be a DOER. It’s the DOERs who create the success of our society. A nation of DOERs – of independent, entrepreneurial, action-based DOERs – will always bring about the necessary changes to save this republic. If you desire your own success, then you desire to become a DOER.
More specifically: every action you take to help another person receive the tax credit strengthens you as a DOER while at the same time weakening the architects – the very architecture – that imposes itself upon a free people with that tax credit. Eventually, the system cannot bear its own weight; the center cannot hold. In taking action to embrace the tax credit you not only strengthen your potential for long-term success by being a DOER, but you effect the implosion of the progressive state. In other words, you hasten the collapse of an economic enemy by using its own tools of destruction and in the action of using those tools, in being a DOER, you reinforce and strengthen the very reason such a system cannot stand in the first place. It’s a “Win-Win” proposition.
One last thought: there are those who fear taking action because they don’t know what will happen after the crash. That’s actually a surprisingly insignificant concern. We don’t control outcomes and so we cannot know them. Rather, we take action based on our knowledge of who we are, what we believe and what we desire. We are a nation of DOERs. If you believe that, than you have no reason to fear your desires or the brave new world after the collapse. A more legitimate fear might instead be: “what happens to me after the collapse if I am not a DOER in a society being restored by DOERs?”
Embrace the government hand-outs and credits and stimulus spending. Encourage an immediacy so apocalyptic that no one has time to read the laws they enact. Take action and be a DOER… Join the revolution.
Eric Hempler says:
Nice Soapboxing 🙂
November 13, 2009 — 11:45 am
Sean Purcell says:
Nice Soapboxing
I think of it more as pamphleteering…
November 13, 2009 — 12:40 pm
Robert Worthington says:
Sean we are “AmeriCANS”
November 13, 2009 — 12:59 pm
Michael Patton says:
Dang it – this scares me!
I’ve totally embraced helping those who many won’t… those that need/desire a short sale. Lot’s of hours and all too many dissapointments, but it feels like I’m doing something good and right.
On the other hand – I’m almost allergic to the idea of helping someone else get into the homeownership position (let the buyers agents who sell my short sales do that) out of the fear that they may well be facing another 15 to 25 percent drop in Las Vegas values over the coming couple of years.
No… my crystal ball is not better than anyone elses.
But being able to live with my daily actions does matter to me.
If I knew, or even suspected, I had the flu and was contangeous I would stay home and not infect anyone else.
Somehow accellerating the total collapse and demise of our system (though I fear that’s where we’re headed) just doesn’t feel right and helping first time buyers with all their wide eyed optimism take the leap off the 3 meter board into the shallow end just feels wrong.
I guess maybe I’m just not enough of a Patriot to lead the revolution towards the end of our financial system and will simply be swept along with millions of others.
November 13, 2009 — 1:51 pm
Sean Purcell says:
Michael,
I wouldn’t advocate …helping first time buyers with all their wide eyed optimism take the leap off the 3 meter board into the shallow end… In fact, I recommend making them well aware of the situation and how they’re helping. If you fear that “total collapse is where we’re headed,” why keep it to yourself. To use your analogy: if you knew a flu epidemic was coming, would you stay home or would you tell as many people as possible?
BTW, if you are selling homes to people even though you wouldn’t recommend they buy the home, you’re trying to be half pregnant. Give people your sound advice and let them make their own decision. Just be sure they sign up for the home buyer credit and any other hand-outs they’re entitled to. Go ahead, party a little: get all the way pregnant! Join the Revolution!
November 13, 2009 — 3:29 pm
Steve Norris says:
Tin Foil Hat Alert… The thugs who are in government will not settle for
half pregnant, either, and may well be driving us to our demise with malice aforethought.
November 13, 2009 — 4:41 pm
James Boyer says:
Though I am not personally eligible for the home buyer credits, I am willing to help anyone who wishes to buy or sell a home. Credit or not, life goes on, people need places to live, people need to move, life continues.
I believe in this country!! I believe in the opportunities living in the greatest country on earth affords me. I believe in home ownership, and the potential of real estate as an investment. I believe so strongly in this that I am re-entering the market as a investor as well as continuing my commitment as a Realtor!!
November 15, 2009 — 11:04 am