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It's not just the freedoms. Think of how miserable your life will be when some knucklehead govt employee puts bad data in your database file. Or sells it. Or uses it to track down your daughter. Sounds farfetched? IRS employees have been caught doing these things.

Then there's the expense. Ah, you say, Larry Ellison of Oracle will give the govt the database software for free. But he will charge for maintenance and upgrades. Besides, the major cost of a database is not the software. That's actually a tiny portion of the cost. Requirements analysis and design are far more expensive. And think of all the govt data entry people you'll need. The people to verify that everyone with access to the database is actually entitled to access. Etc, etc.

And access: to be usable on a national level millions of govt people would need access to your data. Does none of this concern you?

Thanks for the heads up, guy. Hopeful FR can put together some good talking points against the national ID.

Even if we don't manage to spark a movement for a Constitutional Amendment, it will come in handy for dealing with those on FR whose Cult of Personality has clouded their better judgment where trusting the government is concerned.