On Mar 21, 9:51*am, aemeijers wrote:
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. 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?)

Making such a high percentage of the tax money flow through Washington
is nothing but a power grab, making state and local governments close to
irrelevant. Getting all that keen demographic data from the census
process may make their job easier, but much of what they ask for is none
of their damn business.

And on a pragmatic side rant, as we approach April 15- since the power
grab by Washington is long since a fait accompli, why do we still need
to file multiple tax returns? (especially since many states and
localities now require duplicates of some of the federal forms with
their returns.) *Close to 2/3 of all returns are now e-filed, either
directly or through a commercial preparer. Just have one big computer in
the sky, and dole out the money based on address of the filer. For the
logo of this new system, I suggest the taxman and his ax-man sidekick
from the 'Hagar the Horrible' comic strip.

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aem sends...

We agree: Each of us should build our own roads, we don't need police,
the CIA/FBI, or the army, agencies such as the FCC, the Air safety
people and Air Traffic Control, and the FDA are unnecessary. If
planes crash or food is tainted or the sausages made of of horse
manure, what the heck! It's our own business what we eat!
It's our job to look after ourselves. For example; by owing guns we
are all in the 'The militia'. And responsible for our own
defence.Right? All this nonsense about border patrols/control .......
a lot of bunk!
We don't need better government control of the financial system,
banks, investment/finance/insurance companies etc.
Leave that to other countries, because even if their economies are
recovering better and more quickly, following the credit crisis that
our financial system caused, it would be 'socialistic' and Un-American
to do so. Europe and Asia can do what they like, we don't care.The
fact that China had an 8% growth of GDP last year is meaningless and
since Wal mart alone buys much of the goods we buy from China, from
flowerpots to lawnmowers to packaged biscuits, that's free enterprise
and the American way. We should be allowed to continue our high
unemployment as long as we wish.
The fact that we have some 40 million people without proper health
care doesn't matter. Although other countries have done it
differently for the last 50 years or so. and their citizens, on
average, live longer that in the US. That drug costs are three to five
times higher than elsewhere is not true?????
Viva America.