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I'd love to thwart the Census form, but I want a constitutional basis for doing it - and here's the tricky thing. I think even constitutional purists would tell you that just because something isn't in the Constitution does not mean the government cannot do it.

We didn't think taxes ought to go up. They ought to go down. We didn't think the census ought to be weakened.

It's often difficult for conservatives to separate overall government intervention from a question as simple as the census.

You shouldn't have political action committees.

Conservatives need to know how important it is to fill out the census. It is one of the only things our Constitution specifically asks of U.S. citizens and boycotting will just help liberals expand government even further.

Registering people to vote is not partisan activity.

Churches should not be directly involved in politics.

The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does.

It should not be the government running the economy.

Keeping children alive and free of disease is not a political issue and cannot be put into a partisan box.