Health care law’s massive, hidden tax change (CNNMoney.com)

Okay, maybe the crazy right-wingers who think the health care reform law will bring about the end of civilization have a case after all:

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — An all-but-overlooked provision of the health reform law is threatening to swamp U.S. businesses with a flood of new tax paperwork.

Section 9006 of the health care bill — just a few lines buried in the 2,409-page document — mandates that beginning in 2012 all companies will have to issue 1099 tax forms not just to contract workers but to any individual or corporation from which they buy more than $600 in goods or services in a tax year… [read more]