CDR: Re: Congress proposes raiding census records.

[Bill Stewart]

I'd been planning to take the Fifth and write a rant to go with it
explaining why.  There were half a dozen things wrong with the forms
and associated package purely aside from the questions themselves.
But it wasn't a high priority, so I ended up not returning the form.

At 09:45 AM 10/25/00 -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>I didn't answer even that question. I did not return the form.
>
>My result was the same as yours: No visits or inquiries. 
>
>That's a shame. If I get fined $100, I can write a column about my
>experience and sell it for much more.
>
>-Declan
>
>
>On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 04:08:42AM -0400, Lucky Green wrote:
>> I only answered the first question in the last census: how many people live
>> at that address (or something to that effect). The rest I crossed out with
>> fat black permanent marker. The result: no visits from the census taker. No
>> inquiries from the Census Office. No fine. No repercussions of any kind.
>> 
>> I am puzzled why anybody would have bothered to answer the remaining
>> questions.


				Thanks! 
					Bill
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