Vitter's Census Citizenship Question Making More News

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Originally Posted by Ayatollahgondola

I don't actually know how many would or wouldn't tell the truth. On that same point, I'm not even sure how many citizens even tell the truth about much or all the questions. We don't tailor the questions to the general population based upon their willingness to answer, so to do so for one soecific demographic seems a bit unfair. I don't see any issues in not counting them. We should not plan our government around the illegals remaining here, but rather how and when they should leave. To do any different concedes some sort of plan to allow them to stay

You're still not addressing the whole issue. The point is basically that you don't cut off your nose to spite your face. It would be like closing a school or a hospital because there might be illegals taking advantage of the services. If the total amount of state funding is disproportionately small, everyone suffers, not just the illegals. If memory serves me correctly this issue came up in Congress a couple of years ago and even Tom Tancredo and various other anti-illegal immigration congressmen thought this was a bad idea and voted against a bill which would have excluded illegal aliens from the census. Another ironic element in this is that some pro-illegal immigration groups have actually threatened to boycott the census! This issue is clearly not black and white.