[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 60 (Tuesday, April 27, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H2888]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             ``SNITCH TAX''

  (Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California asked and was given permission 
to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California. Mr. Speaker, the biggest issue 
on the minds of the American people is jobs. So imagine my surprise 
when I took another look at the so-called health care reform bill and 
found a provision which is just another job-killer provision.
  Beginning in 2012 under section 9006 of the Obama care bill, any 
company, large or small, that purchases more than $600 worth of goods 
or services from any corporation during the previous year will be 
required now to file a 1099 with the government and with that company. 
That means you have to keep track of all the food that you buy, the 
paint that you buy, the secretarial supplies that you buy, and then you 
have to give this information to the government. Not because of any 
obligation on your part to pay something but on the part of the other 
individual.
  The assumption is that everybody else cheats, and so what this is, is 
nothing more than a universal snitch tax. It requires all Americans to 
give up information on somebody else.
  Repeal this nonsense. Get rid of this burden. Save small business, 
and cosponsor H.R. 5141.

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