Easy. Just say it was never delivered. Lost in the mail. OTOH, with the double counting in certain ethic neighborhoods, not participating leads to money and congressional representation shifts.
I answered the first question and mailed it back. What is so complicated that it takes hundreds or thousands of words?
I circled the part in the top left that said they were required to count people.
Then I listed those of us who live here. Ta Da! I met the constitutional requirement. Licked the flap, sent it back.
Oh, and our “race” is “American”, except my daughter the Anthropology major who asked to be “Homo Sapiens.”
You should not refuse to participate unless you live in a Blue State.
Stupid question but why is a census needed anyhow, other than to abstractly count the sheer number of unregistered illegial immigrants in the US, when the IRS can provide the necessary information that is largely being asked in the Census?
To each their own I guess. I answered my form completely and honestly. Even included my actual phone number. Sorry, but my job requires a security clearance that I'm not going to risk in a pissing contest with the Census Bureau.
I received the short form and thought this isn’t worth making any fuss about. (If you did your taxes you told them a hell of a lot more than this. Pick a worthwhile battle.)
I will participate because I live in a red area of a red state. If I lived in a blue area of a blue state I would not participate. As far as I am concerned it is as simple as that.
Big deal over nothing.
Fill the damn thing out and mail it back! Jeez, live is too short to fight every damn thing...
Short form is basic info this year, not unnecessarily intrusive at all, and I have no problem filling it out completely.
My descendants will love me for it 100 years from now, as I’ve enjoyed learning from old census records about the family that came before me.
A census is a constitutional mandate. Those who refuse to participate in the basic count is costing their state representation in Congress. Ponder that before you decide to sit it out.
Were there a long form, I would likely refuse to answer all but the basic questions.
I used to refuse to comply with the census; and the hispanics and blacks now are heading to outnumbering whites in this country.
Now I have discovered that my abode is home to an even dozen people - coincidentally, the same number that there are lines on the form.
And every one of them is white, and here legally.
Who knew?
BTW, read your form carefully: it says that nothing you put down there can be used against you in court.
I answered all the questions except the one about whether or not I own my house. I can’t find anything in the Constitution that makes that any of their business. The rest of the questions weren’t all that intrusive.
May I suggest that if you choose this course of selective returning rather than simply not returning the document as many intend to,please consider that you may wish to black out with permanent marker the other questions to prevent any ACORN type from filling in the information that they may deem better suited to their progressive purposes.
Just mailed mine. I gave number of residents, sex, and ages. That’s all. At the bottom of the form I wrote, “ I have complied with the Constitutional requirements of a United States citizen regarding the US Census.”
If you fill out the basic information, you have nothing to worry about for the following reasons:
-If you’re tried for not filling out the census, what evidence are they going to present against you? The instant they take out your minimally filled-out form and present it as evidence, the particular census worker who gave up your info is liable for a $250,000 fine and time in jail, because the law clearly states that your census information cannot be used against you in a court of law.
-The max fine is only $100. People have told census workers that they are not going to fill out the form and asked to just be assessed the fine instead. They were not assessed a dime.
-There are too many people not filling it out for the court system to deal with.
-The last time people were assessed the fine was in the 1970’s.
-I think that if the case would go to court, the court might actually find that all of these “how many toilets does your family have” type questions would be found unconstitutional. They have to know that there are ANY number of people out there who are pissed enough with the federal government that they aren’t willing to give someone the opportunity to show that the emperor has no clothes.
I wouldn’t worry about it. I’d feel more scared giving them my information.
The census is meaningless unless and until they have separate categories for American Citizens (for congressional apportionment purposes) and non-citizens (for a sheer numerical count. I know the numerical count is unnecessary, but it’ll take an argument away from the libtards and I don’t mind scrolling past it on a form.
I was polled on this recently and the pollster asked if all the people should be counted. I asked “Do you mean all the citizens or every person within our borders?” and she had no answer. She was simply reading from a script, so I said “No.” I’m sick of having the illegal aliens treated the same as those of us that truly belong here.
One of the questions on the short form positively INFURIATES me!!! It’s the question that isn’t there: 11) Citizenship.
My Mom lives in a Senior citizen Housing Complex and they send out info packs on all kinds of issues ,she received a Flyer saying all they have to give is how many people are living in the House,Period ,they dont have to give anymore info than that
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