When it comes to our nosy friends in the U.S. government I have four words for them... None Of Your Business! And if you are among one of the lucky 3 million American households who received an "American Community Survey" from the U.S. Census Bureau, here's your chance to say it too. Do the feds really need to know how many toilets you have in your home? And more importantly do they even have the right to ask?

Article 1, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution gave the federal government a mandate to conduct an enumeration of the U.S. population once every ten years for the purpose of apportioning congressional districts and calculating the federal tax burden.

Since the census numbers are used to calculate how many congressional seats each state receives, our founders wisely assessed that by also tying taxation levels to the same numbers, states would not try to artificially inflate their census numbers in order to get more congressmen... if they did they would also be subject to more taxes. Now the tax part was repealed almost 100 years ago when the individual income tax was implemented, so that part is moot, but the enumeration part has gotten out of control.

In other words the federal government has the authority to count heads and that's it. But we all know the federal government never let's that little thing known as the Constitution get in their way... oh no!

While the U.S. Census will not be conducted until next year, our busy little friends in DC are demanding that millions of American households bare their souls and disclose countless private matters to Uncle Sam in non-census years... and if you don't you're subject to a fine of up to $5,000... again never mind that the Constitution doesn't give them the right.

Of course the DC do-gooders will say we're only using the data collected to help us in serving citizens. Translation? We want to be able to prove that Americans need us to spend more tax dollars to take care of everyone from cradle to grave.

So how many toilets do I have in my house? None of your business. How much do I spend heating my home each year? None of your business.

Do I have phone service? How many automobiles do I own? Am I a student? What is the highest level of education I've completed? Do I have health problems? Give the location of where I worked last week? How did I get to work last week and long did it take me to get to there? Did I carpool? How many hours did I work? How much did I earn? Did I have any other sources of income? How much and from where? And dozens more questions for me and every member of my household... And you know what my answer is?

None of your business!!!! And Uncle Sam can kiss every toilet seat in my home if he doesn't like it!

Now the media tried to spin the story about the Tax Day Tea Parties back in April to make them appear as being all about taxes... they completely missed the point. It was about freedom and individual liberty and a stop to intrusive non-sense like this illegal government survey and other government actions that have them putting their sticky fingers into every aspect of our lives.

And one more word of warning to Uncle Sam... when I do receive my "real" census form next year, I'm only required to give you the number of people residing in my home. However I'll be generous and also give you the sex and age, but no birthdays, no Social Security numbers, and no other information. And when I select the box for race or ethnicity... I'm putting down Native American... after all I've had ancestors here since the early 1600's. I mean how long do you have to live here to be considered a Native?

Now on advice of counsel I am only telling you what I would do and am not advocating that anyone break any law. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

We welcome your opinions, thanks for listening and I'll see you next Monday... for a complete transcript of this morning's comments, go to NewsTalk1270.com (End of complete transcript of commentary that aired on NewsTalk AM 1270 - WYXC at 7:35 AM Monday, June 15, 2009)