The anti-government types do hate the idea of a national ID, but they're already forced to carry a drivers license/state ID, and SS card so they've pretty much lost the battle already.
I'm afraid that it's the business owners who are our biggest hurdle.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hobby-lobby-mark-of-the-be...
> Human beings can't read a bar code.
- they can, and more importantly they almost never have to
> A lot of our product comes from cottage industries in Asia that couldn't mark their goods with bar codes if they tried.
- They can be added at the store/warehouse level, not every product needs one, and I've never seen a store that worked entirely on bar codes 100% of the time anyway.
> Inventory control by computer is not as accurate as you think.
- This assumes what I think, and it only needs to be more accurate than your current method. If it actually weren't more accurate, I don't think they'd have to fall back on "as you think" in their argument.
> Employees take more pride in their work when they know they are in charge, not some faceless machine.
- this doesn't even make sense.
> Customer service is better.
- questionable, but not impossible to support
> The time savings at check-out is minimal — and easily squandered.
- possible, but time savings at checkout is only one benefit.
- Reprogramming the computer for sales would take a huge effort in our case, because we put so many individual items on sale each week.
- It would take effort, but stores with much more inventory manage it just fine, even when new products are constantly coming in and sales are weekly.
> Twenty million dollars is a lot of money.
- I have no idea from the article what this is in reference to. Maybe the amount it would take for them to make the the switch? It's hard to say how much money it would save them so it's fair to say cost is a concern. I will say that over a long enough time period, it'd probably save more than it costs.
None of this means that concerns over "the mark of the beast" is really the reason, but the reasons they gave don't make a lot of sense either. It could just as easily be that poor record keeping and manual entry at the register allow them commit fraud or something.
I suspect that if the mark of the beast plays any role at all, it's that no having barcodes panders to the christian customer base they've always heavily pandered to. Even just the rumor is basically viral marketing for them to that crowd.
Make the ID card optional, so that it simplifies things if you have it, but still allows operation without it. If 80% of law-abiding population has the card, only the stubborn deniers will remain targets of easy identity theft and fraud based on it. Partly it will stop being worth the effort, partly it will serve as a good control group.
Allow but do not require to use the card for employee identification. Whoever insists on hiring undocumented immigrants, could continue. Most industries don't do that, and would reap the benefits of a more secure identification.
Don't make the card universal. A bank card with a chip does not identify you for governmental agencies, but prevents a lot of PoS fraud. It could prevent credit fraud if banks allowed me to require the card to take a loan in my name, or to make a transfer larger than $10, and provided the card identity check service to each other and to credit unions. Phones with NFC can read bank cards, so it's a good way to say "it's me, I confirm" in a secure way.
Evolutionary, opt-in, piecemeal solutions often have higher chances to succeed than abrupt all-at-once changes.
They absolutely do, but most of the immigrants have a form of ID that gives the companies some measure of deniability. As long as the I-9 goes through, not my problem. If it doesn't, well that's where contractors come in. Official numbers say around 14 million illegal immigrants. Reasonable estimates are closer to 22 and some non-hyperbolic estimates go as high as 40 million.
Otherwise there's no protection against impersonation if IDs aren't mandatory.
Imagine having a bunch of ID cards in you wallet, like you already have (driver's license, library card, office access card, store loyalty card) that all have interoperable smartcard interface, and a QR code of their built-in public key.
They would be much like contactless bank cards you also keep in your wallet.
Banks and phone network operators are uniquely positioned to sell a validation service for such cards, being highly connected and already having data about their existing customers, which would be an easy initial audience pool.
Kind of like RealID[0]? It exists right now in the US.
Big one, but even though employing illegal immigrants is a crime, it's almost never prosecuted.
One doesn’t need to be anti-government to fear governmental intrusion on one’s rights without due process. Our current government does that now.
agree and second -- history shows that this sort of thing goes badly due to "humans"
Any proposal for modern ID needs to have Constitutional protections, checks, and balances or it will eventually devolve into a digital police state.
Everyone's like "a government went on and extermination campaign" and for some reason what would've stopped them is the difficulty in identifying who to exterminate?
As though genocides much care about accuracy.
The big secret of Nazi Germany that isn't a secret at all I is that they put a lot more then just Jews in those camps.
My point is to not make it easier for them.
Figures like 29 million (not to mention 113 million, which would hardly leave anyone in the USSR) are simply not credible. I suspect the 29 million figure comes from counting the victims of the Nazi invasion of the USSR, but those deaths are on Germany's balance.
If you think the holodomor and red terror only killed a couple million people, I've got some beachfront property to sell you in Idaho.
The first is religious nuts who think it would be a "mark of the beast"
The second is anti-government types who are, well, anti-government anything.
The third is many business owners, because it would become much harder/risky to hire illegal immigrants to work.