Originally Posted by Amputate Your Head

I'm not 100% certain on this, but I'm pretty sure it's illegal to maintain a national central database of the population, which is what a National ID Card of any kind would do. This is the reason their last attempt at it with REAL ID failed miserably. The states mostly told the federal gov to fuck themselves.

There are already RFID chips in US Passports.

The US Passport is the ultimate form of ID. Even in places that require 2 forms of ID for something, you pull out a US Passport and you're golden. This should be the defacto ID requirement. You can't go anywhere outside of the country without one any more. They could place restrictions on those people they won't allow to leave the country for whatever reason.

Simple, effective, and uses a perfectly good system that's already in place. Require every US citizen to obtain a US Passport as their official ID. End of fucking story.

But for whatever reason, they won't do it. They cook up these hairbrained ideas to get as much info stored on people as they can, which is why it keeps failing.