Don’t forget that, in Animal Farm, the archetypical Napoleon altered the seventh commandment to be: “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”

Since our current Napoleon and the progressive horde are determined that equality amongst the masses must be enforced as “equal reward”, they have quite another plan for their own “more equal rewards.”

The march to the progressive utopia began long ago with the corruption of the educational system, but now begins the marathon through ‘universal healthcare’.

The wiki makes some incoherent reference to both his derision for Bush and the tax liability of his family’s dual citizenship.

No mention of him asking for it back after 1/20/2009. Something tells me the latter weighed a lot heavier on that.

What this means is that I must give 1099s to the companies from which I buy software, paper (I buy a LOT of paper), furniture, computers, printers, etc. And I must look out for who is sending one to me to make sure it is correct. It will add to the administrative overhead and not benefit me one red cent.

Thanks, Nancy, Harry, and Barry.

It does not and cannot: no analysis for efficiency has ever said to increase the paperwork and hire more paper-pushers.

A larger bureaucracy brings more control, slows things down so that the people at the top can better examine what you are doing, so that they can prevent you from thinking and acting on your own.

An excellent example of how CUTTING a bureaucracy comes from the recent successes in Iraq against al-Qaeda.

From an article for STRATFOR Intelligence Report by Scott Stewart:

“This type of rapid, sequential activity against jihadists by U.S. and Iraqi forces is not a coincidence. It is the result of some significant operational changes that were made in 2007 in the wake of the American surge in Iraq. The then-commander of the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), Gen. Stanley McChrystal, was instrumental in flattening hierarchies and reducing bureaucratic inefficiencies in both intelligence and special operations forces activities inside Iraq in order to create a highly integrated and streamlined organization. The result was the capability to rapidly plan and execute special operations forces raids based on actionable intelligence with a limited shelf life — and then to rapidly interrogate any captives, quickly analyze any material of intelligence value seized and rapidly re-task forces in a series of follow-on operations. The resulting high tempo of operations was considered enormously successful and a key factor in the success of the surge, and recent developments in Iraq appear to be a continuation of this type of rapid and aggressive activity.”

Note the phrase “flattening hierarchies and reducing bureaucratic inefficiencies.”

So for MAObama’s Hell-th Care, the Republicans should be hitting him every day to explain exactly how spending money on forms and on bureaucrats to push the forms saves more money!

See:

http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20100428_jihadists_iraq_down_count?utm_source=SWeekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=100429&utm_content=readmore&elq=951260892b8d4177bc6b7643cc7b62f7

It does not and cannot: no analysis for efficiency has ever said to increase the paperwork and hire more paper-pushers.

A larger bureaucracy brings more control, slows things down so that the people at the top can better examine what you are doing, so that they can prevent you from thinking and acting on your own.

An excellent example of how CUTTING a bureaucracy comes from the recent successes in Iraq against al-Qaeda.

From an article for STRATFOR Intelligence Report by Scott Stewart:

“This type of rapid, sequential activity against jihadists by U.S. and Iraqi forces is not a coincidence. It is the result of some significant operational changes that were made in 2007 in the wake of the American surge in Iraq. The then-commander of the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), Gen. Stanley McChrystal, was instrumental in flattening hierarchies and reducing bureaucratic inefficiencies in both intelligence and special operations forces activities inside Iraq in order to create a highly integrated and streamlined organization. The result was the capability to rapidly plan and execute special operations forces raids based on actionable intelligence with a limited shelf life — and then to rapidly interrogate any captives, quickly analyze any material of intelligence value seized and rapidly re-task forces in a series of follow-on operations. The resulting high tempo of operations was considered enormously successful and a key factor in the success of the surge, and recent developments in Iraq appear to be a continuation of this type of rapid and aggressive activity.”

Note the phrase “flattening hierarchies and reducing bureaucratic inefficiencies.”

So for MAObama’s Hell-th Care, the Republicans should be hitting him every day to explain exactly how spending money on forms and on bureaucrats to push the forms saves more money!

See:

http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20100428_jihadists_iraq_down_count?utm_source=SWeekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=100429&utm_content=readmore&elq=951260892b8d4177bc6b7643cc7b62f7

Current example is the FEDS reimbursing employers for COBRA payments for terminated employees. Filing for the reimbursement is so complicated that many small business organizations have not filed or, get this, hired another company set up especially to handle the filing for them.
I love my government. Don’t you?

…the phone company too?

1099 just became a verb.

How can it be that he is punishing his new love interests? I assume there is a clinical term in psychology to define that behavior.

So if a contractor buys $600 of lumber from Home Depot, he has to send them a 1099 at the end of the year?

The world turned upside down.

Far more convenient to use a single large vendor to get your stuff from in order to minimize the number of 1099s.

Democrats love big business—-it makes big bureaucracy possible

You are all missing the point. A change of this kind has nothing to do with health care and everything to do with taxes. Specifically VAT.

The reason to require this type of over-reporting is so that the government can more accurately assess the amount of VAT that can be generated.

will a business be required to 1099 every $600+ business? Airlines, car rental, hotels, restaurant chains, etc, etc? I currently issue 10 or fewer 1099′s in my business. Now it’s looking like 100 or more.

And with a higher number of 1099s reporting, they are required to be electronic as well (from the business).

So you stay at a hotel for a week, and request a w-9 on checkout?