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Re:IRS Will Soon Require Selfies for Online Access by mike_d on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @02:29PM (#29998733)
You can make it free, but you can't make it compulsory. While the constitution allows for a national ID scheme in the sense of making a card and issuing it, actually using it for anything would be near impossible.

https://law.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1214&con...

Re:IRS Will Soon Require Selfies for Online Access by anticensor on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @02:55PM (#29999114)
There is the Bank ID formula to work around that, at least for the nation state checks: "The Identity Card belongs to the Union, and each Citizen of the Union is obligated to use it as specified in this section of the Code, as enforced by the President of the Union."