I would say answer the questions.  The short and long forms are shorter
than they've ever been.

It will benefit the local and national economies.

It will help with emergency and other services in your community that we
take for granted.

You won't have anything to complain about and you won't be blaming poor
people for all of the troubles that they're having.

Eric

At 12:33 AM 04/02/2000 , you wrote:
>So, does anyone have any suggestions on how to deal with the census?  I find
>even the short form to be highly invasive and unrelated to what the
>constitutional reason for the census is.  Besides using the information for
>distributing political payoffs, the other major users of the information
>gathered are business owners and corporate management.  I am opposed to
>funding the former and I think businesses should foot their own bill and not
>use the government to forcibly extract information from us for the
>development of their customer base or marketing strategy.
>Yours,
>Issodhos


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