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   From: nospam@nospam.invalid   
      
   In article , AV3   
    wrote:   
      
   > In fact the driver's license is an identity card, containing the   
   > holder's birth date, address, head shot, and other generally useful   
   > information.   
      
   there are id cards that *aren't* driver's licenses.   
      
   > There has always been great resistance to issuing an   
   > internal passport/identity card in the U. S., because it is regarded as   
   > the control instrument of a police state, as Soviet Russia used its   
   > internal passports to rigidly control the movement and activities of its   
   > citizens.   
      
   which they do with a driver's license.   
      
   > So the driver's license serves the purpose, and New York State   
   > issues an identity card on demand to non-drivers.   
      
   i don't know of any state that doesn't offer that. not everyone drives.   
      
   > If the U. S. wanted to confine driver's licenses to use purely for   
   > purposes of driving, and social security cards purely for collecting   
   > pension benefits, there would have to be an internal passport, which   
   > would beaurocratically duplicate the information already in most   
   > people's pockets.   
      
   no there wouldn't.   
      
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