U.S. I.D. card -- Is it time?

[Zkribbler]

Ron Paul brought this up in a debate a couple of weeks ago.

Paul's point is that, if we want a tamper-proof card that people will have to produce in order to get employment, wouldn't these cards have to be distributed: (a) to all aliens; (b) tp everyone who looks as if they might be an alien; and (c) to everyone else. And if so, haven't we created an de-facto national identity card? (Everyone else on the dias looked very nervous and changed the subject.)

Considering the illegal alien problem, the fake social security papers, and the massive amount of I.D. theft, it's it time we jettisoned our age-old abhorence to a national I.D. card and embraced the inevitable?

[DinoDoc]

I thought it was called a Driver's License.

[Geronimo]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
I thought it was called a Driver's License.

I like the idea of using the drivers license as the defacto ID card except that states can be so horribly sloppy about verifying ID when issuing the license.

[Aeson]

It would be nice to consolidate all the various ID cards into one ID card. The problem is if you call it an ID card people start having seizures. Lets just call it an iPaSS.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
I thought it was called a Driver's License.

Drivers' licenses are issued by states, not the national govt.

Drivers' licenses are issued to drivers, not to everyone.

Drivers' licenses are not proof of citizenship.

[Kataphraktoi]

Why not just put barcodes on back of peoples heads and implant chips? Would save decades of BS.

[Geronimo]

Originally posted by Aeson
It would be nice to consolidate all the various ID cards into one ID card. The problem is if you call it an ID card people start having seizures. Lets just call it an iPaSS.

when has that approach ever worked? opponents never use a proper name anyway, instead they just throw out euphemisms of their own.

[Arrian]

iPaSS

I don't see much difference between a driver's license and an ID card, except the latter seems more efficient.

-Arrian

[Geronimo]

Originally posted by Kataphraktoi
Why not just put barcodes on back of peoples heads and implant chips? Would save decades of BS.

make it so they can't buy or sell without the bearing the mark.

[Kuciwalker]

Simpler to just conquer the rest of the world so that no one is an immigrant

[Theben]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
I thought it was called a Driver's License.

No, it's called a Social Security card.

[Theben]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
Simpler to just conquer the rest of the world so that no one is an immigrant

Maintenance would be a *****. We'd have to raze a good portion of it so it wouldn't flip back.

[Kuciwalker]

You can't flip to a civ that's been eliminated.

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Zkribbler
Drivers' licenses are issued by states, not the national govt.

So? The feds like using teh Highway fund as a club. Just have them use that to push a common set of standards.

Drivers' licenses are issued to drivers, not to everyone.

Not in my experience. I actually saw "Not useable for Driving" stenciled across one when I was a cashier. Anyone can get them as an ID card.

[Aeson]

Originally posted by Geronimo
when has that approach ever worked?

Patriot Act.