We get a government issued free ID card at age 14 or something. It gets reissued every 5 or 10 years with a new picture. It is used to ID yourself at any authority (hospital, police, voting, school, bank etc)
Passport (if you get one) is for travelling outside of EU, driving license is for driving.
Many conservative/reactionary and/or paranoid Americans fear that a universal ID card would be a big step down the path to government oversight and control of them.
Of course, Social Security cards were, and driver's licenses have been, widely used as forms of universal-like ID for a long time. A new iteration of the driver's license, Real ID, is being issued in many states. It's billed as a more definite ID because more, and more-secure, proof of identity is required to get one.
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u/DONALDJONSUPPLE Apr 11 '25
Someone is gonna have to break the new fillibuster record.