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Tax cuts for the super rich? Important. Having enough money left over to fund a Constitutionally-mandated federal agency? Not so important:

For the second year in a row, the Senate approved an appropriation that Census Bureau officials say is so low they would have to pull the plug on their game plan for the 2010 head count. The replacement, they say, would provide less information and end up costing more in later years.
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Census Bureau Director C. Louis Kincannon said in an interview this week that he will have to kill a monthly household survey that is supposed to replace the long form, abandon plans to automate data collection for the 2010 count, scrap a test census in two counties next year, and lay off thousands of employees unless Congress approves the House budget figure.

Maybe it’s all of those pesky reports demonstrating the real effects of compassionate conservatism that the Census Bureau produced:

Between 2001 and 2004…the number of those in poverty rose by 4.1 million.

Or consider that a recent Census Bureau report found that the percentage of Americans getting private job-based health insurance fell from 63.6 percent in 2000 to 59.8 percent in 2004.

Why does the Census Bureau hate freedom?