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We don't do anything until enough people have died? What an odd way of putting it.
Nobody can die from identity theft, but 100 million people died in the last century from over-reaching governments. The graphic here was under the title "killing in the 20th century". Most of the killing was not in wars, but in purges, "cultural revolutions", etc.
The so-called "problem" should be addressed, but not with government sponsoring the protection problems of the credit bureaus. If someone can't get a house because a credit bureau is falsely alleging that someone has a bad credit history when in fact they don't, that's slander; harm has been done, and I should think civil action is called for.
As a cookie on the old Cellar used to say, paraphrased, "The biggest question in government is how to prevent the government from going nuts and slaughtering its own citizens." If we are to err, given government's track record, we MUST err on the side of caution. When it become politically expedient for government officials to kill, they will do so.
You know that to be true; look at W.'s official take on the death penalty. "All of the people that have been executed were guilty," he says consistently. Yes, that's true; they were found guilty in a court of law. They might not have committed the crime, but they WERE found guilty; and thus, whether they did the crime or not, in a punishment-oriented society it is very politically expedient to kill them.
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