Libertarians Typically Argue That Particular Obligations, At

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.

But There Is No Obvious Reason For Holding That Some Normal Adults Are Entitled To Make Choices For Other Normal Adults, As Paternalists Of Both Left And Right Believe.

The First Census In 1790 Asked Just Six Questions: The Name Of The Head Of The Household, The Number Of Free White Males Older Than 16, The Number Of Free White Males Younger Than 16, The Number Of Free White Females, The Number Of Other Free Persons, And The Number Of Slaves.

The Government Has Become A Mechanism For Distributing Largess, And Your Census Form Is Your Ticket.

Equality Of Rights Means That Some People Cannot Simply Impose Obligations On Others, For The Moral Agency And Rights Of Those Others Would Then Be Violated.