ID Card On Its Way

[9th Engineer]

An alcohol vendor asking for ID does not do so because of some vague demand from the government to produce a piece of paper, he does it because he cannot sell his wares to minors. The guy behind the checkout probably asked for ID because the store policy is to always check age no matter what, keeps someone from guessing wrong. A law forbidding the sale of alcohol to minors serves society because productive members of society are forced to bear the cost of the damage underage drinking does. The law serves my best interests, and therefore I would hope that every vendor asks for ID.
With the pathetic state of immigration control in this country we need to develop ID that is either prohibitively difficult or expensive to forge, a drivers license is neither. Yes, I think that every citizen should be prepared to prove who they are at all times, and with a proper ID system this would be so simple as to be trivial.