As Steyn pointed out yesterday, the IRS is going to confiscate passports for unpaid taxes and, in some states, you won’t be able to travel internally without a passport.
“Papers, please.”
I’m probably in the minority here, but I’ve never understood why we need an ID to get on an airplane. It was not required until suddenly in 1996, they started asking for an ID at the airport.
And what good is the Real ID act, when there are some some states which give drivers licenses to illegal aliens? How the heck is that states drivers license any sort of verification that this person is an American citizen, and how does that show that the state has tightened standards for issuing ID? Clearly they have instead loosened standards if known illegals can get a drivers license anyway.
And what of foreign visitors and travelers? I assume that Mohammed Atta and his boys used their foreign passports as their ID.
Has the Real ID act really achieved the goal of making sure a government issued ID in this country is valid and goes only to an American citizen????