I already sent ours in. I only answered the first 2 question, one being how many people lived in our household and the other, whether there were any other people staying here that were not accounted for in question 1. These are the questions that are required to determine how many seats our state will have in the US House of Representatives. The government also says that it will be used to determine how much funding your community receives, but according to the US Constitution this is not what the census is for.
Frankly, I don't think it should matter to the government the names of each member of my household, our race, whether we rent or own, our phone number, our sex, and our birth dates.
I do not believe the federal government should be taking money from the people and then giving it back to the people in response to the census. This is the job of the state and local governments. They are telling the people to send in their forms so they can make sure everyone gets their money for their communities. I think this is called pork spending and if most American's thought about it, they would not agree to it.
So, what will happen to me since I did not fill out and complete the whole census form? I don't know for sure. The worst that could happen would be having a census worker come by and a fine of $100. If I were to lie on my form, I could get a $500 fine, but I did not lie on my form. But from what I have read, they have not gone this far in the past. We will see how they approach things this time around. They seem to be taking a pretty aggressive approach so far in trying to get people to send back their census forms, so we will see if they will start trying to impose the fines for people who do not completely comply.
I considered just filling out the form completely and sending it back and just doing what I am told. But, as the title of this site says, I am a free-thinker and decided to stand up for what I believe.