"reasonable"--That word sounds funny when looking at this:
http://docs.house.gov/rules/hr4872/111_hr3590_engrossed.pdf
"Resolved, That the bill from the House of Representatives (H.R. 3590) entitled ‘‘An Act to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the first-time homebuyers credit in the case of members of the Armed Forces and certain other Federal employees, and for other purposes.’’, do pass with the following AMENDMENTS:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following: ...."
"the following" is 2400+ pages of gobble-di-gook that makes it impossible to treat this subject reasonably. It's a cut & paste hodge-podge of BS that any drunken undergrad would be proud to sign his name on to get credit for. No professor who had anything better to do would waste his time reading it, and neither did most of the legislators who voted for it.
You can't have a reasonable discussion about something that is, itself, unreasonable.