Examiner Editorial: Ease the burden of Obamacare’s paperwork

Published August 22, 2010 4:00am ET



Among the first things members of the U.S. Senate should do when they return from their August recess is approve Nebraska Republican Sen. Mike Johanns’s amendment to repeal Section 9006 of Obamacare. Not familiar with Section 9006? That’s the provision requiring that every business, charity, and state and local government file a separate IRS Form 1099 listing every purchase of goods or services worth $600 or more. Yes, you read that right, every single purchase of $600 or more gets its very own IRS return. Your office got a $601 phone bill last month? Goes to the 1099. Those Xeroxes your office staff can’t live without and cost more than $600 in paper? Goes to the 1099. And so on and so on.

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