Re: U.S. Census questions

2000-03-24 Thread Colin Rafferty
Fisher Mark writes: Just giving current welfare recipients the choice of working or starving seems like the best solution to me, as it addresses the current problem of the welfare recipient taking from society and not returning anything to society. The problem with this is that the little

Re: Census Questions

2000-03-14 Thread Tom Vogt
Peter Capelli wrote: Hmmm, obviously, the information is worth something to them, or they wouldn't be asking for it! Outside of a count of citizens, everything else is not mandated by the constitution, and therefore extra information that I feel is worth something. Marketing firms

RE: Census Questions

2000-03-14 Thread Peter Capelli
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom Vogt wrote ... second, the compensation for property taken away by the government can surely be argued to be a compensation for your loss. the only thing you lose in the census is privacy, dignity or other immaterial goods. governments don't