Census or Privacy invasion

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[Tyme2fish]

With some paraphrasing for brevity, here are all 10 questions on the 2010 Census form:

1.How many people were living or staying in this house, apartment or mobile home on April 1, 2010?
2.Were there any additional people staying here April 1, 2010 that you did not include in Question 1?
3.Is this house, apartment or mobile home owned by you or someone in the house with a mortgage? Owned free and clear? Rented? Occupied without payment of rent?
4.What is your telephone number (number to call if an answer is unclear)?
5.Names of the individuals living in the home.
6.Sex of the individual inhabitants of the home.
7.Ages and dates of birth of the individual inhabitants of the home.
8.Are any the individuals living in the home of Hispanic, Latino or Spanish origin?
9.The race of the individual inhabitants of the home.
10.Do any of the individuals live or stay somewhere else?

I will answer questions 1 and 2 and maybe #10. All other questions I will refuse to answer.

Question #9 is especially offensive to me. It's none of your **** business what race I am unless I can answer American Citizen as my race.

[HURRICANEBOB]

With some paraphrasing for brevity, here are all 10 questions on the 2010 Census form:

1.How many people were living or staying in this house, apartment or mobile home on April 1, 2010?
2.Were there any additional people staying here April 1, 2010 that you did not include in Question 1?
3.Is this house, apartment or mobile home owned by you or someone in the house with a mortgage? Owned free and clear? Rented? Occupied without payment of rent?
4.What is your telephone number (number to call if an answer is unclear)?
5.Names of the individuals living in the home.
6.Sex of the individual inhabitants of the home.
7.Ages and dates of birth of the individual inhabitants of the home.
8.Are any the individuals living in the home of Hispanic, Latino or Spanish origin?
9.The race of the individual inhabitants of the home.
10.Do any of the individuals live or stay somewhere else?

I will answer questions 1 and 2 and maybe #10. All other questions I will refuse to answer.

Question #9 is especially offensive to me. It's none of your **** business what race I am unless I can answer American Citizen as my race.

Did they say anything about having to tell the truth....get creative. "452 people live here sometimes, and I have a 142 page spreadsheet that shows who was here and when....you got time to look at it? "

[Tyme2fish]

If you refuse to answer a question you can be fined something like $100.00

If you falsely answer, the fine goes up to $100,000.00 per violation.

I think I'll just refuse to answer. By the way, only one person has ever been tried in a court of law for failure to answer a census bureau question. I read this just recently and forget the exact facts, but he was found guilty, fined $1.00 and sentenced to one day in jail,sentence suspended.

It's just the threat of jail or being fined that intimidates the populous.