Pink pineapple looks oddly like salmon

[conuly]

but it *is* pretty sweet!

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Comments

[siliconshaman]

Dropbears are real..kinda.. Eucalyptus has a narcotic effect on Kolas, they end up stoned out of their minds and are really calm as result. Dropbears are Kolas in withdrawal, and they are vicious nasty little buggers who'll attack anything and anyone with or without provocation. Add to that the fact that people aren't too observant when they have a few kilos worth of raging furry junkie trying to eat their face like a methed up rottweiler, and you get dropbears.

[pauamma]

Pink pineapple/me recoils in horror.

[hudebnik]

Well, technically doing a US census that doesn't include non-citizens wouldn't be illegal; you just can't use it for allocating House seats, and you still have to do a "real" census every ten years for that purpose.

AFAIK, the Constitution doesn't say anything about using the US census for allocating government spending, since there wasn't much of that at the time -- Federal government money was mostly spent on the military and running the Federal government itself. Rather the reverse: in the original Constitution, Federal taxes were mostly paid by the states, in proportion to their populations, and if we still did that, those taxes would still have to be proportional to the total number of persons, not the number of citizens. Anyway, it's probably not un-Constitutional to use a citizens-only census for allocating Federal spending.

But it does seem like the height of "government waste and inefficiency" to do a whole extra census, at a cost of $15 billion or so, just so you can allocate government spending a little differently, particularly since we already allocate government spending across based on all sorts of criteria other than population.

It would give Trump a "talking point" about which states have lots of non-citizens -- at a guess, it'll be California, Texas, Florida, and New York, hardly a partisan slam-dunk. But Trump doesn't need facts to make a talking point: he already knows what he wants to say, and objective facts would only confuse things. So there's not much point in that justification either.