You don't have to and aren't supposed to. You are supposed to fill out the form for your primary residence, regardless of how many homes you own. Crews are working very hard to determine if any given house is primary or seasonal. But if no one is at the seasonal residence when the worker shows up, how is the worker to know the status? The resident might be at work, or might be in another state, for all they know. So, a census form is left at or mailed to each, just in case what looks like a seasonal or vacation home is actually a primary residence. If you have already filled out a form at your primary residence, and you arrive at your summer home and find another, you can safely ignore it.
By the way, the media reports that it costs an average of $12 to process each mailed-in form. But when an enumerator has to come to a home for whatever reason, that figure jumps up to around 5 times that.
If that's the way folks want to spend their tax dollars, be my guest. No skin off my nose.
And in spite of the colloquial term "human race," human is a species, not a race. But again, if that's how people want their tax dollars spent...don't come crying later about the cost. You had a chance to keep the expenses down. If you didn't want to take it, that's your choice, I suppose.
I can't believe how childish some people are being about this. And I don't care how I'm belittled and screamed at for my opinion. I still find it pretty childish.
