This year, some of that <$600 activity might be due to the misinformation spread by FOX News and Republicans about the Health Care Reform law passed in the last Congress requiring such.

Yesterday, the US Senate passed a bill further defining 1099s for >$600, as part of the Republican agenda to take away health care from the middle class and needy.

But I think most of that misinformation was dishonest politicking by anti-American Republicans and FOX News (which is Australian), simply spreading their agenda of fear.