Having it both ways

FITS News has been going on about the Census: it's unnecessary and costs too much (though typically, his ranking of the cost of every census since 1790 is unsourced so you can't tell if the numbers are inflation-adjusted).

It's not a very original idea, though: a common conservative meme:

Counting Everyone

16 MAR 2010 09:23 AM

Mark Blumenthal wants to do away with the census:

Does it make sense to spend $14.7 billion (the estimated cost of the 2010 Census) every 10 years trying to get each and every household in the United States to fill out a census form? Probably not. There is a more efficient alternative, but it requires the use ofstatistical sampling and, presumably, bipartisan support for a constitutional amendment to update the meaning of "enumerate." Too bad the same conservatives who complain about the cost of the census also reject that idea out of hand.

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