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Individuals who receive the ACS must complete it or be subject to monetary penalties.
Although no reports have surfaced of individuals actually being penalized for refusing to answer the survey, the potential fines that can be levied for refusing to participate in the ACS are staggering. For every question not answered, there is a $100 fine. And for every intentionally false response to a question, the fine is $500.
The real danger is in not knowing why the information is needed, how it will be used by the government or with whom it will be shared. YOU CAN BET THE GOVERNMENT WILL NOT SAFEGAURD YOUR PRIVATE INFORMATION!
As such, the ACS qualifies as a government program whose purpose, while sold to the public as routine and benign, raises significant constitutional concerns.
The Rutherford Institute has received hundreds of inquiries from individuals who have received the ACS and are not comfortable sharing such private, intimate details with the government or are unsettled by the aggressive tactics utilized by Census Bureau agents seeking to compel responses to ACS questions: https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/legal_features/constitutional_qa_american_community_survey
The US Supreme Court has ruled that citizens have no obligation to answer questions posed by the government and are free to refuse to do so. This same principle should apply to questions posed by ACS brown shirts. However, because the government has not brought a prosecution for a refusal to respond to the ACS, the question of a person’s right to refuse has not yet been decided by a court.
MY COMMENT: If this comes to me I'll file a restraining order against this brown shirt agency trying to violate my 4th and 5th Amendment rights, and for any harassment!
https://archive.ph/2qG8o
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/right-be-let-alone-when-government-wants-know-all-your-business