re: #54 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

On the other hand, if there could be legal guarantees of privacy and security, requiring ID for these activities would be a lot more efficient than the haphazard system we have now. In Sweden for example (maybe Teukka can confirm), you have to present your national ID card to do most anything related to housing, banking, education, health care, etc. The national ID is integral to the taxation and social services systems.

In any event, I don’t think instituting a national ID system in the USA will stop the flow of undocumented immigrants. The truly desperate will still come, and there will be a black market in fake IDs.

I think that a universal national ID system could help solve or reduce a lot of problems associated with illegal immigration and abuse of social programs, it would totally end the issue of “voter fraud”, and would still be cheaper than building and maintaining a wall.

And it should only be required for major financial transactions (leases and employment/insurance contracts, bank accounts) and, of course, security-related issues.