{"id":196349,"date":"2008-05-05T05:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T10:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/05\/looks-like-large-home-builders-wont-get-their-way\/"},"modified":"2008-05-05T05:03:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-05T10:03:00","slug":"looks-like-large-home-builders-wont-get-their-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/05\/looks-like-large-home-builders-wont-get-their-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Looks Like Large Home Builders Won&#8217;t Get Their Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the home mortgage packages, one of the things that the lareg home builders have been lobbying for is a tax change to allow them to carry operating losses forward to profitable years, but it increasingly looks like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/24407612\">this will not be a part of any mortgage bill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There are a number of reasons, the first of which was that the Senate version of the bill has been lambasted by everyone as a bailout for builders and mortgage lenders, and the second is that the <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/funny-of-day-home-builders-threaten.html\">threat by homebuilders to cut off political donations<\/a> overplayed their hand.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, because of the level of pay for play in this action, it made standing up to the homebuilders a political win, because it shows &#8220;character&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the home mortgage packages, one of the things that the lareg home builders have been lobbying for is a tax change to allow them to carry operating losses forward to profitable years, but it increasingly looks like this will not be a part of any mortgage bill. There are a number of reasons, the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1020,1088],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislation","category-real-estate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}