re: Brits Mock Texan Over Vote ID Requirements

quote:

---

You do not need an ID to buy alcohol and tobacco.

---

Sure you do. If you go to the right store, when the clerk scans a beer, you are asked to swipe your driver's license before the transaction can be completed.

The left has doubled down on its message that blacks and other minorities just aren't up to snuff when it comes to getting a photo ID. While we who tend to lean to the right accept as fact that minorities are equal to the rest of us and, therefore, equally capable of things like raising their own children, not murdering people, and obtaining a photo ID, the left has made it perfectly clear that they do not believe that blacks and other minorities possess the basic capabilities required to complete such a simple taks.

quote:

---

You do not need an ID to buy alcohol

---

I guess you have never been to a bar/lounge the next day after some waiter/waitress got busted for selling to an underage person the night before? Hell, the place I frequent here in Conway was id-ing the alley cat that hangs out at the back door just so the owner's arse was covered.

quote:

---

let's compile a list of fundamental rights that require an ID

---

Getting SNAP benefits.

ETA: It's not a fundamental right but I will never understand how it isn't racist to require ID before getting food stamps or welfare or any other public benefit but it is to require ID to vote.

quote:

---

Can't we make a combination Welfare/ID card. We know they won't lose that EBT card.

---

I've suggested this several times.

I live in Texas, and I voted yesterday.

Stepped right up, whipped out a valid drivers license, and.....voila!

This should be a non-issue. A strong majority of people already possess a valid ID, and anyone who doesn't have one can easily procure one. A small price to pay for taking a step towards a more secure election process.

In Cali, you are only required to produce an ID for buying alcohol if the shopkeeper thinks you look under 35.

It's not that they look the other way - it's that your age eventually exempts you from this requirement. So it's not required for the entire population.

quote:

---

We are about to add flying commercially

---

About to? I have to show it every time before I go through security.

You have to show ID 3 times if you don't self-check in at the airport.

At the ticket counter.

Through security.

And at the gate when boarding.

3 Times!

quote:

---

let's compile a list of fundamental rights that require an ID

-buying a gun
-getting married

---

Both of which provide immediate, tangible benefits to those submitting payment.