Political Quotes

“Mr. President, we have a distinct opportunity to take what I regard as very clear and decisive action to uphold two very important principles. We as a Senate, No. 1, support enabling job creation. In this regard, repealing the 1099 paperwork mandate helps fulfill our promise to clear Federal roadblocks that are stopping small businesses from expanding and putting Americans to work. Small businesses want to expand. They want to hire more workers. Millions of Americans want to get back to work. Yet the tax paperwork mandate hidden in the health care law requires businesses to file a mountain of additional 1099 tax forms. It will consume resources that would otherwise be spent on wages for new employees. Our job creators need to be focusing their time and energy on hiring and expanding, not dealing with government-directed mounds of paperwork. In addition to halting this enormous amount of tax paperwork, full repeal would prevent erroneous IRS fines and hefty accountant bills from slamming our job creators. As the President of the National Federation of Independent Business put it: You can't operate and grow your business if you are spending all your time filling out IRS forms and haggling with auditors. I couldn't agree more, and that is why I have been actively advocating for a complete and full repeal of this burdensome 1099 requirement for many months now. Anything less than a complete repeal is simply unacceptable. No.…”