Throw in biometrically secure and I'm totally cool with that.

My birth certificate from the hospital has my footprint on it. But, when I went to the Secretary of State, to upgrade to a "Real ID" license, the certificate was rejected. In Michigan, birth records are kept at the County Clerk level. Fortunately, my life's wanderings had landed me back in the county of my birth, so I drove to the nearest Wayne County Clerk office, paid the fee, and obtained a certified birth certificate. Any time a fee is involved, it amounts to a "poll tax" to vote, which is illegal.

Generally, I'm perfectly fine with everyone's footprint, or fingerprints being taken at birth, and put in the central database. Of course, then you have an issue with amputation. Of course, these days, a DNA sample can be taken instead.

>>WHAT!!! Burden the "JCs"?<<

Yep!

"JCs" don't see it that way. One of my coworkers at RS was in the Michigan National Guard. He left RS and worked someplace else. Maybe six months later, he stopped in the store, and told me of his adventure with his new employer. When he hired in, he told the "JC" he was in the Guard and would be taking off for two weeks every summer for training. The "JC" spouted the expected "we support the Guard and Reserve". A few months later, when his Guard unit was headed to Campe Grayling for two weeks training, the "JC" said "NO". So the guy had a choice of quitting the Guard, or quitting the job. iirc, he quit the job.

Don't care :)

The folks in Florida would care. Federal funding for things like roads and schools are keyed to population. If 20% of the state population is using the roads and the schools, but not being counted for Federal funding, that puts the state in a budget bind.

>>Use the "pay-go" rule <<

I'm fine with that, too. Unchecked federal spending leads to inflation and massive debt service, neither of which are things we want to fool with.

I agree.

Steve