June 18, 2006
Quote of the Day
I'd suggest to you that instead of taking the ACS head on, that we ought to insist on a "mandatory" statement on the ACS form and in all conversations started by Census workers such as,
"Although the ACS is 'mandatory':
1.) This has never been tested in any court. And we aren't interested in having it tested before any court because we very well might lose.
2.) The Census Bureau has no enforcement powers and the Department of Justice has its hands full doing lots of other more important things. They'd probably laugh in our faces if we referred cases to them asking them to try and collect $100 fines.
3.) No one in the history of the US has ever been fined or prosecuted for refusing to complete the Census. So the probability of your being eaten by a man eating tiger that escapes from the zoo is greater than your being fined for not competing this survey."
Posted by Russell Whitaker at June 18, 2006 03:10 PM | TrackBack