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GOP renews attack on Census survey
that asks too many personal questions

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Pete Kasperowicz

Original Article

Posted By:KarenJ1, 3/12/2013 2:02:33 PM

Republicans in the House and Senate are resuming their efforts to take a mandatory Census Bureau survey that they say is overly intrusive, and make it voluntary. Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas) said on the House floor Tuesday that he would reintroduce legislation making the Census Bureau´s American Community Survey voluntary, after hearing more complaints from constituents that it asks too many personal questions. Census mails out 250,000 of these surveys per year to American households. The surveys ask dozens of questions, including whether the home has a flush toilet, when people go to work,

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Good for them! That survey is outrageous, overly intrusive and unnecessary. I completely agree with Rep Poe, what next, they ask how many guns you have? With this regime absolutely nothing is impossible.

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Coy860, 3/12/2013 2:08:37 PM     (No. 9221237)

I was referred to a medical specialist, and went yesterday. I was given a TWENTY page application that asked highly intrusive questions that did not pertain to my health.
4 pages appeared to be information gathering for a study of some sort, although there was no mention of that. I left them blank and informed the doctor that I do not answer questions that I believe are too intrusive and do not deal with any medical problem.


Reply 2 - Posted by: nimby, 3/12/2013 2:15:00 PM     (No. 9221253)

"when people go to work"? Its none of their business. Are they going to share it with thieves and robbers?

Can we ask Obama when he goes to work (if at all)?


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: mitzi, 3/12/2013 2:18:18 PM     (No. 9221258)

I thought the Supreme Court found a "right to privacy" in the Constitution regarding a woman´s right to an abortion.

Would not the same right of privacy apply here?


Reply 4 - Posted by: retiredandmad, 3/12/2013 2:18:57 PM     (No. 9221259)

I´ve gotten at least two of those over the years. The first one we got numerous phone calls telling us to fill it out, even if just part of it. Finally a smarmy woman showed up at the front door one evening. This was back when jobs were plentiful. I suggested what she was doing was unconstitutional, that she should be ashamed, and get a real job. Then we went on a weeks vacation and had 3 messages telling us to fill this thing out and send it back. Then the quarter came to an end and we heard no more. This was about 10 years ago. A few years later we got one at our cottage. We ignored that one too. There was no phone at that place and we weren´t there often enough to get harassed. No follow up and no fines. We did complain to our DC reps. Glad they are finally following up to end this. Saw on a website years ago how many millions and millions of dollars this thing was costing.


Reply 5 - Posted by: GOP_U_BET, 3/12/2013 2:23:53 PM     (No. 9221271)

I got this survey. It asked a lot of questions that I did not want to answer. I filled out the bare minimum and sent it back. It wanted a lot of information about my home, my living conditions, etc.


Reply 6 - Posted by: WV.Hillbilly, 3/12/2013 2:39:56 PM     (No. 9221308)

I will fill out the minimum amount of questions on the 10 year census, but I will not fill out one of these. I throw them away.


Reply 7 - Posted by: ScarletPimpernel, 3/12/2013 3:10:17 PM     (No. 9221363)

FTA: "The surveys ask dozens of questions, including whether the home has a flush toilet, when people go to work, how much income they earn, and whether anyone living there has mental conditions."

Much too much information for a census! For the last census we answered two questions, one too many, IMO.
We were never visited by a census worker. But the next time we´re only going to answer ONE question: how many people live at the address?


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: Blue-Z-Anna, 3/12/2013 3:17:57 PM     (No. 9221385)

The biggest damage done by the "Income Tax" is not what it steals from you but what it "Knows" about you.

Where and how you make and spend your money is none of the goobermint´s damnbidness.

Come and get me.......coppers !

The Census ?

Those folks don´t even come round this neck of the woods.

But the Revinoors are thick as thieves and the Game Warden wants to look in my freezer !


Reply 9 - Posted by: Ribicon, 3/12/2013 3:30:14 PM     (No. 9221407)

Ted Poe is among a very small handful of liberty-minded Republicans willing to stand on our behalf.


Reply 10 - Posted by: navybrat, 3/12/2013 4:54:47 PM     (No. 9221528)

The census survey is only supposed to ask, how many people live in the household. It is not their business to know how many bathrooms I have, the cost of my house, what kind of car I have or any other questions. I tell them what I am legally required to tell them, how many people live in my house. The headcount determines how many representative we have in Congress. I do not answer the other questions. They can find out everything about you through the IRS and local tax records, but I will not make it easy for them to pry.


Reply 11 - Posted by: skywarrior, 3/12/2013 4:59:25 PM     (No. 9221536)

I got one of these last fall and drug my feet as long as I could. I also tried to get my Congressional Representative involved, but that wasn´t successful, although they did give me some good advice on how to file a dispute with the Census Bureau.

I´ve NEVER had the kind of harassment I received from the Census Bureau people! Not even from bill collectors who thought I was someone else! I loudly proclaimed to all that this was/is unConstitutional, but everyone just fell back on the constitutional requirement for a Census every 10 years as justification. When I FINALLY gave up and sent in the form, my answers probably weren´t very useful to them.


Reply 12 - Posted by: Salt5792, 3/12/2013 5:02:23 PM     (No. 9221543)

Just don´t answer the questions. Let them take you to court if they feel so intense about it. Fifty million American rebels are a lot even for the criminal Obama regime.


   

 



 
Reply 13 - Posted by: Charactercounts, 3/12/2013 5:16:39 PM     (No. 9221573)

A neighbor saw someone on her doorstep, inputting her address to some sort of electronic device. When she asked him what he was doing (and he went down the street doing this at every home), he claimed he was from the Census Bureau and was inputting the coordinates of her address.

I don´t know if he was telling the truth. If I had seen him, I would have called the police.



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