For you folks who full time. We were sitting by the fire with the owner of a RV park. ( We were spending the week.) He brought up the full timers helps keep the lights on during the winter. He also...
As mentioned above, be more suspicious of local government. I know from my military time, we were given questionaires annually by local schools in an effort to access additional funds for school systems. Likewise tracking local area resident data can be used for federal funds in housing and other social service agencies. All of Government is just as interested in maximizing their incoming funds just as much as a business is.