National ID
The NYT notes that congress is mucking around in establishing rules for driver’s licenses:
Congress is moving quickly toward setting strict rules on how states issue driver’s licenses, requiring them to verify whether each applicant for a new license or a renewal is in this country legally.
A House and Senate conference now taking place has included the requirements, which apply to all 50 states and other jurisdictions that issue licenses, in a supplemental appropriations bill for Iraq, aides involved in the process said on Monday. The draft legislation will be completed in the next few days and is all but certain to pass.
Another level of bureaucracy, just what we need:
State officials complain that the new requirements will add a costly, complicated burden to the issuance of driver’s licenses, which has been their responsibility for almost a century. Civil rights organizations and privacy advocates say that they are concerned that a standardized driver’s license would amount to a national identification card and that a central database would be vulnerable to identify theft.
Yes, I think it would be. But we already have national IDs for all intents and purposes.
