Required? Nothing.
You think this expense would have been ‘sequestered’ away, but I suppose they have more important things to cut, like the military and air traffic control.
They can fine you for not complying, but they have never fined anybody. Probably because they have no legal standing to do so.
Reject the "American Community Survey" from the US Census Bureau
Garbage
"Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons. The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct"
Notice it just says enumeration. Also this form is not an official census but data that is used for apporpriation of funds and earmarks.
I round filed the original form.
I round filed the follow-up with threats.
We pay too many pencil pushers in government, just gathering data with which to micro-manage us even more.
Blather...
Why aren’t the environmentalists upset about this egregious waste of paper? Why is it not via the Internet? Don’t most illegal aliens have computers now, too?
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.
Toss it in File 13.
You are “required” to tell them how many human beings reside in your home. The government is not constitutionally permitted to force you to answer any other questions.
Tell them you’re a crippled, bisexual, transgendered Black illegal Mohammadan. They’ll send you a bunch of free $hit.
Well if its a real census questionaire you have to tell them how many people reside at the residence. Thats it. Thats all we put on our form in 2010. Naturally they sent some busybody woman out and again we told her 2 people live here now git.
Just for fun we added our cockatiel to our census form and listed him as an “Australian native” just to see if the census information was truly confidential. No kidding, he subsequently received junk mail including solicitations to join the John Birch Society.
The joke about the bird being a ‘right winger’ was a given!
I put the number of people at my address on the form in the actual census, nothing else. That is all that seems to be required by the Constitution and maybe not even that. Any subsequent and/or out of season forms go straight into the trash. They will not attempt to prosecute, no matter what it says on the paper. They will not take the chance that the Supreme Court will cut off all their unconstitutional questions and interferences. They get a tremendous amount of information voluntarily given by most of the population and they will not imperil that by prosecuting you or me.
A few years ago I tossed mine in the recycle bin. Then I tossed the second one. Then the second month they started calling every two or three days to help me fill out the form. During the third month they started dropping by and leaving notes of increasing hostility (from “could you please fill out your form” to “you are required by law to fill out the form...”. Then after that I never heard anything.
Oh, my mom got one of those forms. I don’t think it was the community survey as it wasn’t that long. I was all set to contact our congresscritter but she found in the fine print that completing it was voluntary.