Don’t listen to the ones saying “The constitution says all you have to give is...”
This is the American Community Survey and it is a required survey by LAW. The Constitution doesn’t say you can’t drive over 55 mph, but if the law says it, just try and get out of a ticket on that one.
So yes, they do require this information, but you CAN refuse to give your name. Just say refused refused on that line. If you don’t send it in, you will workers bugging you endlessly for a month.
They get this data for statistical purposes to see what types of housing is in an area, demographics like race, etc... income compared to other local areas. The internet is for structural purposes. But you probably skip that part too if you wanted.
The rest is pretty important.
I think not, troll.
The "law" in question has no basis in the Constitution - there is NO authority whatsoever for the government to gather the information in question, and it can therefore be ignored at will. Cloaking information requests with the uniform of the Census, and making stern-sounding threats for non-compliance, gets some fools to provide the information, but no one HAS to provide it.
The fact that no one has ever been fined for failure to obey it speaks volumes. The government knows that such a fine would be tossed by the courts, and destroy efforts to gather information via this method.
May your chains sit lightly upon you, troll. Just don't try to attach the chains to any of the rest of us.
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”
― Samuel Adams
Are you seriously supporting the government’s attempts at data mining our personal, household information?
The only thing we are “required” to give for census purposes is the number of people in our household. The rest is none of their damned business.