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The question posted Oct. 15 was: Do you agree with Washington County's short-term "stimulus" plan -- which combines an excise tax credit, a permit fee reduction and a recordation tax break-- to encourage residential construction and make homes more affordable?
Poll results: Yes, 259 votes (33.5 percent); No, 514 votes (66.5 percent)
o "If it allows tax breaks and reduced fees then I feel that it is a much better approach than the federal government spending hundreds of billions of dollars to create more bureaucracy and government programs. Also, it is operating at the local level and the officials behind it are more directly accountable to the citizens."
o "How about a plan to help give tax breaks to buyers of existing homes? This would help some of these people who have been trying to sell their homes or people trying to avoid a foreclosure. What I don't understand is why these developers continue to build when the buyers aren't there."
