Originally Posted by
cbn42
There is no way the American public is going to stand for a national ID card, de facto or otherwise. Even the UK government had to scrap their national ID plan after public outrage, and Americans are far more skeptical about excess government power than Britons.
It might actually work - the people most inclined to oppose it on the grounds of federal overreach / excess government power are also a lot of the same people who complain about voter fraud, welfare fraud, illegal immigration, etc. If it was pitched as partially a means to address that, it might make it easier to swallow politically.