It's not really HN subject matter, but don't forget this pales into insignificance compared to the new tax law which says you have to fill out and issue a 1099

It's not really HN subject matter, but don't forget this pales into insignificance compared to the new tax law which says you have to fill out and issue a 1099 to anyone you buy more than $600 of stuff from: I have a startup. Now I have to do this. It pisses me off. I'm thinking that's about as much an "HN Matter" as anything else on the front page. This is the "death by a thousand cuts" scenario: lots of little piddly nuisances which add up to a regulatory nightmare. None of them are really all that onerous, but taken together, well, things accumulate, and perception is 9/10ths of reality. There is an aggregation of PITAs from state, local, and federal governments. I'm not saying that in an anti-government way. Whatever your feelings about taxation and government, it's more of an issue of the bus heading down the road and nobody is driving than anything else.