Originally Posted by
petaluma1
About 2/5 of the U.S. population has a passport. How many of those are minors who don't need ID to board a plane? A few million?
Last I checked, people can still apply for passports. A passport card, if you only need to travel in the US, is something like $30. Cheaper than a driver's license.
Well, they are not going to be grounded, they just need to apply for a passport (which costs money, yes, and isn't straightforward for everybody particularly if unpaid taxes are going to lead to passport denial).
I do agree that a passport should not be necessary to move about within your own country, so it is an erosion of liberty, but hardly grounding.
This. It's a violation of liberty, it serves little point, but it's a clickbait headline - no one is being grounded. They have to shell out another $30 on top of their plane ticket. A few more papers to file. Annoying, bureaucratic, and stupid... but not grounding.