aemeijers wrote in
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Stormin Mormon wrote:
Anyone know what's legally permitted to ask? I remember from
school that the goal is to count the people, so they can
move the congressional districts around and properly
represent the people. Other than the number of people living
at the residence, what other informatiin is legally
required?


The constitutional requirement is to count noses, nothing more. But
Congress did pass a law at some point, allowing them to ask all sorts of
other questions. For Our Own Good, of course, so they could properly
pass out all the 'free' federal money that never should have been
collected in the first place. A favorite pet peeve of mine- they steal
our money, then give some back, minus their cut of course, and they have
the sheeple so well conditioned that they are grateful to get it.

Being able to "hand out money" is power. that's what it's about.
more bureaucracy means less freedom.

Most
of the stuff the feds give aid money to state and local governments for,
should have been financed at the local level in the first place. (And if
the people that benefit from a service are not willing to pay for it,
well, maybe it shouldn't happen?)

OTOH,kinda hard to build Interstate highways when a few states say no to
their part.



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