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Yes, it is. It's the specific and only stated purpose for the "enumeration" mandated by Article 1, Section 2. The number of residents in your household is the only information you're constitutionally required to give to the government. You don't owe them anything else, not gender of residents, race, religion, number of pets, number of flush toilets, NOTHING ELSE.

I will be a "non-complier" in 2010 (and in 2009 if I get the ACS). My wife, who has the right to make up her own mind about compliance relating to her, will be instructed that she's not authorized to disclose any information on anything I own separately or jointly, or on any personal attributes of mine. She can tell them she can't respond on my responsibility.

I'm willing to go to jail for this. By the time they come to collect a fine, my money will be out of the bank, hidden in a safe place. If they want to put a productive, tax-paying citizen in jail for noncompliance with unconstitutional laws, just let them. That's less money they can use to redistribute to the lazy and unproductive.

The census has been used too long to divide us into groups and set us against one another. The data gained therefrom is the basis for computer modeling by which our politicians gerrymander us into safe Republican and Democrat districts, thus undermining our election process and causing much of the putrid stink that's rampant in our politics. The data is also what allows our politicians to decide whose vote to buy, and how much of our money to use to do it with and where.

Sorry. I refuse to willingly participate in the undermining of this nation that this data enables the slimeballs to get away with.

I doubt they will do anything of the sort.

I've filled out the questions I wanted, left blank the ones I didn't like, and never heard anything again.

They don't appear to care/notice as, over the years, I've been designated a represenative household for a couple other issues. Same thing. Fill out what you want, leave the rest blank.

The census has been used too long to divide us into groups and set us against one another.

DING DING DING.... WE HAVE A WINNER!

And that is precisely the reason for all those intrusive questions. Grouping. Groups fall in and out of favor, they are catered to or ignored. Pols take great comfort in such information. Divide and conquer - POWER - CONTROL.

If we all just said we were one group (American!), they'd lose power (well, at least a little bit - it's a start). But too many fail to see it and blindly answer like good little mind numbed sheeple.

Every ten years I tell em how many. That's it. Last census, that's what I did. They sent someone round. I was outside working when she drove up. Gave her credentials and began in on her verbal questioning.

"Two people live here" was the reply along with a look that said; to ask anything further is going to waste both of our time, and irritate the hell out of me. She left. No further communications were attempted.