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Good news from the U.S. Census Bureau! "The 2010 Census will be a short-form only census," its website declares. It will still be longer than the Constitution calls for -- asking for "name, sex, age, date of birth, race, ethnicity, relationship and housing tenure" -- but that's a start, right?
Wrong. The site goes on to say that the "more detailed socioeconomic information is now collected through the American Community Survey" -- an annual supplement to the census that is not mentioned anywhere in the Constitution. The ACS wants to know if you "have difficulty dressing or bathing" or have difficulty "concentrating, remembering or making decisions." It wants to know how well your toilets are working. It wants to know how much your monthly bills amount to, how healthy you and your children are, how you get to work and how long it takes you to get there.
Campaign For Liberty — Down for the Count | by Peter Orvetti