Failure to Respond to the U.S. Census Form May Carry Infraction Fine Up to $5,000

First and foremost, please read Catherine Austin Fitts' article A Solari Report - Census Fines on the penalties involved with failing to respond to the census. Ms. Fitts drops the knowledge on the subject with relative ease. Basically, failing to respond to the census is an infraction, and under federal law, a person who commits an infraction can be fined up to $5,000. This contradicts the census statute which specifies a $100 fine. However, the federal government takes the position that the statute defining the infraction fine trumps the census statute.

The Congress passes a law that says failure of anyone to complete any federal government census may incur a relatively modest fine of up to $100. Experiencing a declining rate of response from the population and finding no other means of forcing compliance, the Census Bureau digs up criminal statutes that (1) classify any federal violation punishable by a fine as an “infraction” and (2) override any lesser statutory penalty for the “infraction” with a $5,000 fine to justify threatening randomly-selected ACS recipients with a fine of up to fifty times the fine determined by Congress for the violation. And then the Census Bureau says, in effect, “don’t worry, we can’t force the U.S. Attorney to fine you $5,000—we are just informing you of the draconian weapons in the government’s arsenal that may be available in case you don’t cooperate.”

Source: Solari Report