From: Randall Parker 

The take-home lesson here is that it is cheaper to refuse to fill it out
than it is to fill it out incorrectly.

However, if you fill it out incorrectly depending on how you do it they may
not notice and therefore may not come after you. But if you fail to fill it
out expect a visit.

This is simply one of a great many indicators that the government has
become too invasive in our lives.

In <38cd9d3e{at}w3.nls.net>, the sagacious randyh{at}barkto.com Randy
Holcomb perspicated:
>  >The Commerce Department says this is all mandatory information needed for
> > >the Census.  Their Bureau of the Census wrote the survey. 
And, there is a
> > >penalty of between $100 and $500 attached for not answering correctly,
> > >depending on how you do it.
> > >
> > >The applicable law is 13 USC 221, "Refusal or neglect to
answer questions;
> > >false answers":
> > >
> > >(a) Whoever, being over eighteen years of age, refuses or willfully
> > >neglects, when requested by the Secretary, or by any other authorized
> > >officer or employee of the Department of Commerce or bureau or agency
> > >thereof acting under the instructions of the Secretary or authorized
> > >officer, to answer, to the best of his knowledge, any of the
questions on
> > >any schedule submitted to him in connection with any census or survey
> > >provided for by subchapters I, II, IV, and V of chapter 5 of
this title,
> > >applying to himself or to the family to which he belongs or
is related, or
> > >to the farm or farms of which he or his family is the
occupant, shall be
> > >fined not more than $100.
> > >
> > >(b) Whoever, when answering questions described in subsection
(a) of this
> > >section, and under the conditions or circumstances described in such
> > >subsection, willfully gives any answer that is false, shall
be fined not
> > >more than $500.
> >
>

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