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**vanity** American Community Survey - Do I have to fill this out?
self | 11/1/12 | self

Posted on 11/01/2012 9:02:00 PM PDT by FollowingTheGrace

Today I received "The American Community Survey" from the Commerce Dept. It is 28pp of very intrusive questions, from the time I usually leave for work (to the minute) to who I work for and how much I make to how much I pay for utilities, and much, much more. The questions are repeated for everyone who lives in my household and include name, address, and phone numbers.

It says I am required by law to return this.

Anyone here familiar with this? Any advice?


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: 2012; commercedept; donttreadonme; freedom; government; govtabuse; tyranny
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1 posted on 11/01/2012 9:02:08 PM PDT by FollowingTheGrace
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To: FollowingTheGrace

I do not know the BigGov legalities, but I would use it to light my fireplace. No way they are making me lap their boots like that.


2 posted on 11/01/2012 9:05:28 PM PDT by MtnClimber (I did not vote for Zero. Someone else did that.)
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To: FollowingTheGrace
Today I received "The American Community Survey" from the Commerce Dept.

No you didn't. The USPS has been damned unreliable since Sandy blew through! It's not your fault it was lost in the mail.

3 posted on 11/01/2012 9:05:53 PM PDT by kevao (Hey, Obama: The 1930s called, they want their economic policy back.)
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To: FollowingTheGrace
According to the Census site or the American Community Survey site, yes, you have to answer the questions.

American Community Survey

I'd be creeped out about the questions, though.

4 posted on 11/01/2012 9:06:19 PM PDT by madison10 (I love it when a plan comes together ~~God)
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To: FollowingTheGrace

I was threatened by the census bureau twice in 2009 that i would be prosecuted if I did not reply. So I called them back and said “none of your business” to every question. They never contacted me again. I made sure it was the census by returning their call.
That lady was SOME pissed off with me!

Tell em to go fry ice.


5 posted on 11/01/2012 9:07:41 PM PDT by acapesket
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To: FollowingTheGrace

I thought that was the survey that some people received along with their 2010 census forms. Didn’t know they were circulating this unconstitutional nonsense in non-census years.


6 posted on 11/01/2012 9:07:48 PM PDT by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: FollowingTheGrace

Isn’t that a survey from the Business Dept.?


7 posted on 11/01/2012 9:07:56 PM PDT by Paladin2
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Tell them your dog ate it!


8 posted on 11/01/2012 9:08:13 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: FollowingTheGrace

I tossed both it and the farm version of it, and haven’t been arrested yet :)


9 posted on 11/01/2012 9:09:23 PM PDT by Ellendra (http://www.ustrendy.com/ellendra-nauriel/portfolio/18423/concealed-couture/)
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To: FollowingTheGrace

same issue. fill it out, no one ever said you had to be truthful. So as a black, Polynesian, islamic, wickin transgendered, 200 yr old ect. note the computer spit out your address.


10 posted on 11/01/2012 9:10:38 PM PDT by waynesa98
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To: madison10
I would not have a very good “recollection” of any answers.
11 posted on 11/01/2012 9:10:56 PM PDT by Dan(9698)
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"We randomly select about 3.5 million addresses each year to participate in the survey."

Good luck with that.

I think I'd deal with them the same as other polls.

Tell them that you love Bronco Bama.

12 posted on 11/01/2012 9:11:26 PM PDT by Paladin2
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The Department of Commerce has stated that those who receive a survey form are legally obligated to answer all the questions as accurately as possible. Those who decline to complete the survey may receive follow-up phone calls and/or visits to their homes from Census Bureau personnel. Section 221 of Title 13 U.S.C., makes it a misdemeanor to refuse or willfully neglect to complete the questionnaire or answer questions posed by census takers and imposes a fine of not more than $100. This fine was changed by the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 from $100 to not more than $5,000. The Census Bureau prefers to gain cooperation by convincing respondents of the importance of participation. To date, no person has ever been charged with a crime for refusing to answer the ACS. The Department of Commerce states that it is "not an enforcement agency"

Short answer: don't return it, and if you get a follow up call say you never received it. At that point they may or may not ask follow-up questions. You can be fined if you decline to respond to those questions.

13 posted on 11/01/2012 9:11:41 PM PDT by FredZarguna (Every President from Arkansas both of whose inaugurations were held in prime years has a bitch wife.)
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To: FollowingTheGrace

File 13 material.


14 posted on 11/01/2012 9:14:25 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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>> Any advice?

I can’t give you any advice.

All I can do is to tell you what *I* would do if it were me.

Ir it were me, I’d shred it.


15 posted on 11/01/2012 9:14:42 PM PDT by Nervous Tick ("You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.")
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To: madison10
http://www.census.gov/acs/www/Downloads/questionnaires/2012/Quest12.pdf

This looks like the census form I filled out while I was on the road in 2010 far from my home.

These guys need to be sequestrated.

16 posted on 11/01/2012 9:15:18 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: FollowingTheGrace

obama doesn’t recognize the Commerce Dept, so why should you?


17 posted on 11/01/2012 9:15:42 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: acapesket

The last time a Census worker showed up after I didn’t send in the form, I was on the front porch cleaning a rifle with two Dobes laying at my feet.

That was 20 years ago and they haven’t been back since or sent me any more forms.


18 posted on 11/01/2012 9:16:24 PM PDT by Salamander (Wounded, old and dangerous.)
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To: FollowingTheGrace
They keep pestering you until you fill out the form.

You're supposed to fill it out accurately instead of just kinda-sorta-close-enough guesstimates. Of course, they can't tell whether or not you wrote actual correct answers or plausible numbers off the top of your head unless they already know the exact answers, and if they already knew the answers they wouldn't need to send you the form. I'm not suggesting anything, I'm just saying....

19 posted on 11/01/2012 9:16:43 PM PDT by stroll
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The feds don’t take “the fine print” on voter registrations seriously, what makes this crap any different?


20 posted on 11/01/2012 9:17:13 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Osama bin Laden is dead, Chrysler moved to Italy and China.)
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