Perhaps you could post a list of questions that the ACS wanted. Was there a statement that providing false information could be considered a crime? Was there any promise of confidentiality?
This is more police state BS. I understand that businesses are receiving these form requests as frequent as once a month.
It would have been interesting if the interaction was taped.
Here is the Census's site listing the current ACS questions. http://www.census.gov/acs/www/about_the_survey/questions_and_why_we_ask/
I dug into a couple of their links explaining why they ask various questions and distilled down to their core a lot of them amount to "so we know how to pass out federal money". That's more than enough reason to not answer anything on there.
This was several years ago by now, so to be honest I don’t remember a lot specifically.
They did want to know far more about my wife and I and our home than I was comfortable giving. They wanted to know about our neighborhood and community.
As I recall, it was an extensive set of questions that I wasn’t willing to comply with. By now I’m merely left with general impressions rather than specific questions.
I don’t recall a warning that provision of non-factual information would be actionable. There were warnings concerning non-compliance, fines and other. I don’t remember more than this specifically.
I agree that it’s more police state B.S. I was unaware that businesses were being hounded as you mentioned. Good grief!
Well, the interaction on our part would provide nothing more than a paper trail.
As for taped interactions, that would be interesting to watch.
Sorry about the delay in response.