Comment by 0xbadcafebee

The main reason we don't want a ubiquitous national ID is that once it's there, everything will require it, which means everything you do will be tracked. Which is okay until the government decides to go psycho and attack some section of the population. Right now, literally every red state would love to get their hands on logs filled with IDs of people who have anything to do with abortion (a Texas bill makes it illegal to even drive someone to an abortion) so they can put them all in jail (abortion doctors get 99 years). In the past it was the gay rights movement, civil rights movement, the satanic panic, the communist panic, rounding up all asians into concentration camps during ww2, etc. We can expect more of this, and a ubiquitous ID makes it much easier for the government to execute these plans.