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Can someone explain to me why we need the census at all? Why are we actively pretending that the federal government doesn't have precise estimates for where pe
by parkingrift 5y ago
Can someone explain to me why we need the census at all? Why are we actively pretending that the federal government doesn't have precise estimates for where people live?
- spicyusername 5y ago> have precise estimates for where people live? The census is how they have that estimate...
- parkingrift 5y agoDo you really, seriously, believe that the intelligence agencies in the United States use the census for their population estimates?
- brimble 5y agoThe way we live in a complete surveillance state except when it would in any way provide convenience, at which point we have to pretend we don't, is something I find irritating on a pretty regular basis.
- pueblito 5y agoIt’s a constitutional requirement, Article 1 section 2
- parkingrift 5y agoThat section just explains that the count should be updated every ten years, among other things. It doesn't say we need some useless government organization to spend billions of dollars to tell the federal government what they already know. We just simply need to update the count of free persons. That's it.