There was no census when Jesus was born

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“This was the census taken before Quirinius was governor.
http://www.gotquestions.org/Quirinius-census.html

There was no census in Judaea before Quirinius was governor, idiot. It was part of Herod's Kingdom and then ruled by Archelaus. Herod paid a tribute to the Romans as per their treaty. How he collected it was his business..and responsibility.

Of course, Caesar Augustus himself does tell us when he conducted a lustrum of the number of Roman citizens in the empire....and the "Christ" family would not have been citizens, in the Rex Gestae Divi Augustus.

http://classics.mit.edu/Augustus/deeds.html

in my sixth consulate (28 B.C.E.) I made a census of the people with Marcus Agrippa as my colleague. I conducted a lustrum, after a forty-one year gap, in which lustrum were counted 4,063,000 heads of Roman citizens. Then again, with consular imperium I conducted a lustrum alone when Gaius Censorinus and Gaius Asinius were consuls (8 B.C.E.), in which lustrum were counted 4,233,000 heads of Roman citizens. And the third time, with consular imperium, I conducted a lustrum with my son Tiberius Caesar as colleague, when Sextus Pompeius and Sextus Appuleius were consuls (14 A.C.E.), in which lustrum were counted 4,937,000 of the heads of Roman citizens.

Augustus seems a far more reliable source than the dubious shit you spout from your so-called gospels. So 28 BC, 8 BC and 14 AD. None of those do much to help your stories out and, as noted, they were mainly concerned with counting Roman citizens. Direct taxation of Roman citizens in Italy had ended in the 2d century BC. The link between a census and taxation unfortunately dates from much later, 73 when Vespasian in the aftermath of the civil wars conducted the final lustrum. Again, no one was required to go to their place of birth - that is just xtian stupidity trying to get their godboy to where they thought he ought to be and even that is a dismal mis-reading of Micah 5. But 73 was a lot closer in time to when this happy horseshit was written and seems to have made quite an impact on the writer.