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Re:A year after outcry, IRS still doesn’t offer taxpayers al... by flangola7 on Friday February 10, 2023 @12:29PM (#34742792)
Germany had identification record systems before they became totalitarian, when Jews were treated as citizens and decorated veterans of WW1 under the law. A person does not know when their government will become totalitarian and cannot rely on legal solutions to data problems.
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Re:A year after outcry, IRS still doesn’t offer taxpayers al... by comte7092 on Friday February 10, 2023 @12:42PM (#34742996)
What you’re saying is that water is wet.

Name a government in existence that functions without a central identification infrastructure of some sort. Having ID isn’t what leads to totalitarianism, it is a ubiquitous fact of having a bureaucracy that delivers services to its citizens.

In most instance, having government id is not a harbinger of risk of totalitarianism. There are more important things to focus on.

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Re:A year after outcry, IRS still doesn’t offer taxpayers al... by flangola7 on Friday February 10, 2023 @07:08PM (#34747904)
>Name a government in existence that functions without a central identification infrastructure of some sort.

Within living memory, the United States of America.

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Re:A year after outcry, IRS still doesn’t offer taxpayers al... by mixdup on Friday February 10, 2023 @08:34PM (#34748606)
Social Security Numbers Drivers Licenses

And before "but drivers licenses are not national" they effectively are via cooperation between the various states and between the states and the federal government

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Re:A year after outcry, IRS still doesn’t offer taxpayers al... by comte7092 on Friday February 10, 2023 @11:19PM (#34749544)
You were alive when social security was rolled out?
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