The federal government issues a variety of official identification such as passports and Global Entry cards. Citizens are free to use those if they like and they are accepted everywhere that matters. The federal government also has the Real ID program to ensure that state issued identification (such as driver's licenses) meets certain standards if people want to use those IDs for purposes beyond just driving.
The notion that a single federal ID card should be mandatory for everyone or that the federal government should handle driver's licenses is just stupid and reflects a total misunderstanding of how the USA is structured. We have a dual sovereignty system for good reasons and hopefully that will never change.
> The key thing is that us Europeans generally trust our governments, whereas the US population doesn't even trust the government to the point that there is one single federal ID and drivers license card.
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> The notion that a single federal ID card should be mandatory for everyone or that the federal government should handle driver's licenses is just stupid and reflects a total misunderstanding of how the USA is structured.
Seems to me they accurately described the reality and then you're substantiating their description...
The notion that a single federal ID card should be mandatory for everyone or that the federal government should handle driver's licenses is just stupid and reflects a total misunderstanding of how the USA is structured. We have a dual sovereignty system for good reasons and hopefully that will never change.