President Obama gave his final State of the Union speech last night, which prompted the AIA to issue a statement outlining policies it feels President Obama and Republicans in Congress should enact this year in order to bolster the health of the architectural profession. These include:
• Strengthening the Historic Tax Credit
• Passing The National Design Services Act
• Retaining 2030 energy efficiency targets for federal buildings
The majority of these initiatives are designed to ease financial burdens, both by reducing student debt while stimulating tax incentives for construction (the AIA advocates for making the 179D Energy Efficient Commercial Building Tax Deduction permanent). Among other things, The National Design Services Act allows students to work off their academic loans through community service, while the AIA describes the Historic Tax Credit as a method of "promot[ing] investment in the buildings that make America what it is today." Archinect plans to follow the state of the government's architectural policies as the year unfolds: check back for our investigation into architectural tax policy in February!
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Obama is still President?
The right to marry the building you love.
Obama will be a president till the end of this year. Just to let some of you guys to know.
And it will have no effect on architecture
jsigelman, are you an American? Obama's term is over on January 20th 2017.
My healthcare premiums have gone up 133% in the last two years. <3 my Obamacare
same here on healthcare and since i am middle class i do not get subsidies.......design relief act sounds interesting, but i probably make too much now, but def. not enough. government is a joke.
Hope and change my ass. Although I do have a little change left.
oBOMBaCare is a blatant violation of federal antitrust laws. The quality of care continues to decline because the whole system is designed around profit, not health. I think oBOMBaCare actually makes people sicker: they self-ration care because of high deductibles, quality and choice are highly restricted by narrow "networks", and the stress of dealing with it is bad for you.
What exactly is he going to put in that library? It’s like some kid that went to college for 8 years but never showed up.
the same sort of stuff the other 13 presidential libraries contain, which consist of over 400 million pages of textual materials, nearly 10 million photographs, over 15 million feet of film, nearly 100,000 hours of audio, and roughly half a million museum objects.
Videos of drones trikes around the globe.
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