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A Libertarian Take on Answering Census Taker Questions

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Their "swarms of officers" are bound and
determined to count everyone out here in flyover country. I have
successfully run them off twice now but they do not appear to be ready
to leave me alone yet. The quote that comes to mind is this: "Don't
believe them, don't fear them, don't ask anything of them." (by either
Alexander Solzhenitsyn or Dmitry Orlov) and  I would add, "Don't give
anything to them."
RW response:

Of course, the census is a statist operation that should be objected to on libertarian grounds. However, when the state is actually conducting a census, the objection to answering the questions is a totally different story.

According to United States Code, Title 13 (Census), Chapter 7 (Offenses and Penalties), SubChapter II, if you're over 18 and refuse to answer all or part of the census, you can be fined up to $100.

So you are going to end up giving the government something, either census answers or $100.


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