Do I have to answer all the questions on the Census

If you are over 18 years old and refuse to answer the census questions you can be fined up to $100. 13 U.S.C. sec. 221(a).

If you knowingly give a false answer to a census question you can be fined $500. 13 U.S.C. sec. 221(b).

You do not have to answer questions that ask about your religious beliefs or membership in a religious body. 13 U.S.C. sec. 221(c).

""In addition to collecting population data for the purposes of accurately apportioning congressional districts, the federal government uses census data, among other reasons, to determine:

* The allocation of federal funding for education programs in states and communities.
* National social and health statistics used by a variety of agencies for policy purposes.
* The allocation of federal dollars for law enforcement, federal highway projects, aid to farmers and many other federally financed activities and programs.
* A wide variety of economic statistics that become the basis of the nation's economic policies.
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Source(s):
http://www.thisnation.com/question/022.

Good luck.

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Just print this out and give it to the worker or send it in with the form.

DECLARATION

I hereby affirm that the provisions of Title 13 requiring me to disclose my
race, personal financial data, birth date, or any other personal, private
information to the Bureau of the Census, an agency of the United States
government, constitutes an unreasonable and unwarranted search of my person,
house, papers, and/or effects; and a governmental invasion of the sanctity of
my home and the privacies of life. As such, these provisions violate the Fourth
Amendment of the US Constitution, and are thus wholly void and I am not bound
to obey them.

I have completed only those sections of the Census form, or will answer
questions, pertaining to that which is constitutionally mandated and actually
enumerated in the US Constitution, as follows:

1. The actual number of people living at the address printed on the form,
excluding untaxed Native Americans;

2. Age of each person in accordance with US Const. Amendment XIV, Section 2

3. Sex of each person, in accordance with US Const. Amendment XIV, Section 2.

I have thus fulfilled my obligation to the attainment of the actual enumeration
of the populace of the United States.


Any fine or other sanction that is levied by any office or organization
stemming from the unconstitutional provisions of Title 13 in connection with my response to
this or any other Census-related questioning will be challenged in a court of
law.


Further: on March 28, 2000, US District Judge Melinda Harmon granted a temporary restraining order against prosecution of any American who chooses not to answer
questions other than the number of people living at their address.


The general rule is that an unconstitutional statute, though having the form and name of law, is in reality no law, but is wholly void. Unconstitutional law bears no power to enforce, it purports to settle as if it
never existed, for unconstitutionality dates from the enactment of such a law,
and not such time as branded in an open court of law. It confers no rights; it
imposes no duties; affords no protection; it creates no office; it is in legal
contemplation, as inoperative as though it had never been passed. No courts are
bound to uphold it and no persons are bound to obey it. (Source: 16 Am Jur
256.)

Judge Melinda Harmon reversed her decision and sided with the Census Bureau on June 19, 2000. Please check your facts before you have people using this incorrect information and making a stand on a legal point that is not true. She said that the Bureau needed to gather information and the 10 year census was a way to do this information gathering.

I do not want to answer these questions I believe they are a privacy issue. However, I do not want to have a fine either. The Democrats who are in power ask more questions on the Census than Republicans. Remember this when you vote in November 2010.