Originally Posted by
catocony
Passports are not free. They're currently $110.00, plus the cost of a photo and the cost to mail the app in. There are no provisions I'm aware of where you can have the fee waived due to financial hardship. Thus, requiring everyone to have a passport creates a financial hardship for many, which would mean that they cannot use commercial air transportation in the United States.
Indeed.
Another issue with applying for passports (and other ID) is that applications for such are designed in such a way that even the innocent can too easily be threatened for making an incorrect claim on an application and have that used against them for years and years after getting and using the ID without any fraudulent intent.
Free Americans shouldn't have to place themselves in legal jeopardy for wanting to exercise what is a rather basic right -- and yet that is what ID requirements can do.