Originally Posted by
AllieKat
I highly doubt tens of millions of those who fly would need one. I imagine that the vast majority of Americans WHO FLY, possess passports. Remember, most people rarely or never get on a plane. Getting a passport card with your tickets would just become part of the process if you live in a non-compliant state.
I'm not saying it's good. It's awful. "Papers, please" - just that the headline is misleading clickbait, no one is being "grounded".
You do realize that it takes up to 6 weeks to get a passport card, don't you?
What happens when you live in a non-compliant state and find out that a close relative is near death 1200 miles away; you need to get there ASAP. You get a ticket and get to the airport only to find the TSA won't let you on the plane because you don't have an acceptable ID.
Methinks you need to expand your horizons and realize that a good part of the world doesn't work the way you seem to think it should.