This chart, via (of all things) TurboTax, is not what I expected. California and Florida sure, but Texas? And where is Nevada?
According to GAO, through July 3, 2010, approximately one million claimants claimed $7.3 billion in interest-free loans through the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008, which provided homebuyer assistance in the form of a refundable credit for homes bought after Apr. 8, 2008 and before Jan. 1, 2009; Another 1.7 million claimed $12.1 billion in homebuyer credits using provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, and 600,000 claimed $4.1 billion in credits under the provisions of the Worker, Homeownership, and Business Assistance Act of 2009. GAO also provided a state-by-state ranking under three different statistics: the total dollar amount claimed; the dollar amount claimed per resident; and the average dollar amount claimed per tax credit claim.
So this is a total dollar chart, but where are the per capita charts — in which case the bigger more populous states would naturally have more applicants.
Despite the lovely colors, I am going to have to give this map a Fail.
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via TurboTax
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