From CalculatedRisk on 3/15/2010. Home Builders $2.3 Billion "Gift" from Taxpayers Last year, included in the "Worker, Homeownership and Business Assistance Act of 2009" that extended the popular unemployment benefits were two unpopular and ineffective tax credits: the home buyer tax credit, and a net operating loss carryback extension to allow businesses to write off … Continue reading How Economic Policy is Made by Congress (worse than sausage making)