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Every 10 years, there is a legal requirement for a U.S. census, and the U.S. Census Bureau mails questionnaires to millions of Americans.
Many consider the questions too invasive or time-consuming and fail to respond, but responding to all census questionnaires is required by federal law, and the Census Bureau can actually impose fines for failing to answer the questions or for intentionally providing false information.
Over time, it has become necessary to add pages asking additional information, such as age, education, employment, insurance coverage, whether or not you rent or own a home, ancestry, Internet use, whether you receive food stamps, and much more.
However, many Democrats and liberals bristle at the suggestion that you might be asked if you're a citizen, but can there be a bigger hypocrisy? Actually, the citizenship question should be No. 1. Much government planning is based on census data, and in doing that planning, the number of people eligible for certain things is important.
If we're not able to ask the citizenship question, we shouldn’t ask all the other "invasive" questions and save money by doing a simple head count.
Many consider the questions too invasive or time-consuming and fail to respond, but responding to all census questionnaires is required by federal law, and the Census Bureau can actually impose fines for failing to answer the questions or for intentionally providing false information.
Over time, it has become necessary to add pages asking additional information, such as age, education, employment, insurance coverage, whether or not you rent or own a home, ancestry, Internet use, whether you receive food stamps, and much more.
However, many Democrats and liberals bristle at the suggestion that you might be asked if you're a citizen, but can there be a bigger hypocrisy? Actually, the citizenship question should be No. 1. Much government planning is based on census data, and in doing that planning, the number of people eligible for certain things is important.
If we're not able to ask the citizenship question, we shouldn’t ask all the other "invasive" questions and save money by doing a simple head count.
