When has ANYONE been actually fined or jailed for failure to answer census. I never said anyone had been fined or jailed. Only that it was an unfair and disproportionate law and should be abolished.
Tax havens? So what? I think they should crack down on tax havens. I don't see any sort of massive exodus from the horrid oppressive tax state. What a farce. So, you don't understand that your government is in desperate need of money and constantly inventing new ways to take it out of your pockets. And, you also don't understand that raising taxes and the other things the government is doing won't fix the problem?
No it doesn't “... make sense that the whole reasoning behind the census is to help the government detect tax evaders or cases where people may be mis-reporting their income, then hitting them with a $5,000 fine for filling their out census form with faulty data”. That is about as sensible as saying that since I don't know why the stereo in the next room came on by itself 10 minutes ago it must be that I have a poltergeist. Sure it could be imagined to be so but there is no real evidence. I can imagine all sorts of things. I can imagine that Nancy Pelosi and Newt Gingrich are aliens conspiring to ruin the US so that they can signal their minions will have an easier time in genetically altering our food supply and turn us all into mindless worker bees supporting their intergalactic search for artificial red fruit punch. That don't make it so. Yes, it does. Do you know what eminent domain is, or how it has been abused recently? Do you know what debtor's prisons are, and that they have been re-implemented in some cases? And, do you know that these things are indicative of a growing need for money? Anyway, regardless of whether or not they enforce a policy that allows them to hand down a $5,000 fine for a typo. The government should not have that power, period.
Maybe, the US government isn't desperate enough to resort to a $5,000 fine for a typo, yet. But, it may very well be a matter of time. Why encourage it?
And, if you have to go so far as to compare Pelosi to poltergeists to prove a point, I hope you don't strain yourself.
It is simply required... Being "required" doesn't justify something.
and the “other sources” are not answerable for their data, have no or little voracity to their data, and are not obligated by law to gather or even be honest about their data. They have no legal requirement to provide it, would do so with a fee (typically) and have little to no incentive to protect the data they gather (demonstrated) and are not OF the people, BY the people, or FOR the people. Heh. So, you don't understand that those information services make things like stalking and identity theft, easier? And, you don't understand that the government is supposed to 'regulate' and protect against things like identity theft?
So, tell me . . . who has been fined for this and when? I never said anyone was fined. Another one grasping for straws.
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I never said anyone had been fined or jailed. Only that it was an unfair and disproportionate law and should be abolished.
Tax havens? So what? I think they should crack down on tax havens. I don't see any sort of massive exodus from the horrid oppressive tax state. What a farce.
So, you don't understand that your government is in desperate need of money and constantly inventing new ways to take it out of your pockets. And, you also don't understand that raising taxes and the other things the government is doing won't fix the problem?
No it doesn't “... make sense that the whole reasoning behind the census is to help the government detect tax evaders or cases where people may be mis-reporting their income, then hitting them with a $5,000 fine for filling their out census form with faulty data”. That is about as sensible as saying that since I don't know why the stereo in the next room came on by itself 10 minutes ago it must be that I have a poltergeist. Sure it could be imagined to be so but there is no real evidence. I can imagine all sorts of things. I can imagine that Nancy Pelosi and Newt Gingrich are aliens conspiring to ruin the US so that they can signal their minions will have an easier time in genetically altering our food supply and turn us all into mindless worker bees supporting their intergalactic search for artificial red fruit punch. That don't make it so.
Yes, it does. Do you know what eminent domain is, or how it has been abused recently? Do you know what debtor's prisons are, and that they have been re-implemented in some cases? And, do you know that these things are indicative of a growing need for money? Anyway, regardless of whether or not they enforce a policy that allows them to hand down a $5,000 fine for a typo. The government should not have that power, period.
Maybe, the US government isn't desperate enough to resort to a $5,000 fine for a typo, yet. But, it may very well be a matter of time. Why encourage it?
And, if you have to go so far as to compare Pelosi to poltergeists to prove a point, I hope you don't strain yourself.
It is simply required...
Being "required" doesn't justify something.
and the “other sources” are not answerable for their data, have no or little voracity to their data, and are not obligated by law to gather or even be honest about their data. They have no legal requirement to provide it, would do so with a fee (typically) and have little to no incentive to protect the data they gather (demonstrated) and are not OF the people, BY the people, or FOR the people.
Heh. So, you don't understand that those information services make things like stalking and identity theft, easier? And, you don't understand that the government is supposed to 'regulate' and protect against things like identity theft?
So, tell me . . . who has been fined for this and when?
I never said anyone was fined. Another one grasping for straws.