Byron Dorgan Votes Against Repealing Obamacare’s Job-Killing 1099 Requirement
One of the most ridiculous measures in the Obamacare bill was a change to the income tax code requiring businesses to file a 1099 form for every business or contractor they do more than $600 worth of business with. For most businesses, that means issuing a 1099 to everyone from their telephone service provider to the caterer for their Christmas parties. It will mean billions of additional tax forms filed every year (there’s no way to file them online), as well as an army of new IRS agents to handle and audit the filings.
Multiple attempts have been made to repeal this part of Obamacare, the most recent happening in the Senate yesterday. Unfortunately, that effort failed with North Dakota’s own Senator Byron Dorgan.
Kent Conrad, to his credit, voted for ending the requirement.
The Senate on Monday failed to repeal an unpopular element of the health care overhaul even though Democrats and Republicans agreed it needed to be jettisoned to prevent businesses from being saddled with undue tax paperwork.
Caught in a partisan dispute over how to proceed with eliminating new tax reporting rules, the Senate twice was unable to reach an agreed-upon threshold of 67 votes to eliminate a provision that critics have seized on to illustrate the failings of the health care legislation championed by Democrats.
A Democratic plan to overturn it attracted only 44 votes in support with 53 against; a Republican plan that would have cut other programs to make up the shortfall caused by the repeal fell short on a vote of 61 to 35.
It’s hard to imagine that not even something as ridiculously unnecessary as this new tax regulation could fail to attract enough support to pass through both houses of Congress.
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