Biden looks to give a big boost to homebuyers and builders

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[springwater13]

Biden is proposing a $15,000 first-time homebuyer tax credit, which could be accessed immediately by the buyer, thereby serving as down payment assistance.

The FHA could also reduce its monthly insurance premiums under the new leadership.

[BiglyCommentary]

Just watched the new Liam Neeson movie Marksmen. The location was down near the border in AZ. The character had a small cattle ranch. Do cattle actually eat the dry scrubby stuff or do you always have to supplement with lots of hay?

[Wuli]

Jobs are more important than such tax credits.

The unemployed, and marginally employed, and those whose incomes are too low can’t use them.

And the truly soundly employed can get by, and get a home, without them.

So, as usual, a Liberal law suggests it is for “persons in need” when in fact it is some industry (real estate development and construction) that is the actual beneficiaries (just as overly expensive colleges are the real beneficiaries of federal aid to college students).

[HotHunt]

We live in Florida. Our cows will eat practically anything. They'll chew the bark off our oak trees. They eat vegetable plants out of the garden if they can reach them through the fence. They eat shrubs, bushes, weeds.

They even swallow metal things left in the pasture like nails, etc. We have a big magnet we drag around behind one of the tractors to collect as much as we can because the metal can injure their insides.

But mostly they'll eat pasture grass while it's green and growing. They eat the top 3-4 inches that's fresh growth. We rotate them around to 10 different paddocks to keep them from eating the grass all the way to the ground and killing it. This allows the grass in the paddocks to grow before we rotate them back in.

Once we have our first freeze and it kills the grass, we have to start putting out hay bales for them to eat. In the winter, we supplement their hay feed with some solid protein in tubs which they lick. In the summer, we give them salt minerals, either loose in a bucket or in solid form, like a salt lick block.