This Year's U.S. Census Is Going To Cost Taxpayers $14.5 Billion

Last week, the federal government sent out U.S. Census forms to 120 MILLION households across the country. You may have already gotten yours in the mail.

--Anyway, the U.S. Census Bureau has announced that this year's census will cost taxpayers $14.5 BILLION . . . or $46.93 per person.

--That's $10 BILLION more than the last census in 2000, and is more than the last 200 years worth of censuses COMBINED.

--If you're wondering why this census will cost so much more than every other census . . . well . . . there are several reasons. Not the least of which is the government wanted to increase awareness to let people know a census was coming up.

--To do that, they dropped $2.5 MILLION on census ads during the Super Bowl . . . another $113 MILLION for a broader ad campaign . . . and $85 MILLION to send out mailers letting people know when their census form would arrive. (???)

--Despite their best efforts, Census Bureau officials estimate that a THIRD of Americans still won't return their census form.