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| Originally Posted by Flyboy I voted YES - as a Serviceman I've carried ID for the last 30 years and its been nothing but useful but the main reason I think we should have them is to help prevent NHS and benefit rip-offs. At the moment it's almost impossible to show that a scrounger from abroad who's here just to use the NHS or claim double benefits while working on the black is not entitled. An ID card would go a long way to cutting down on the fraud. Mind we shouldn't have to pay for the honour of owning one |
I'm sorry to dissappoint you on both counts. You will have to pay for it (Stealth taxes anyone???) and it will not stop NHS fraud by foreigners nor will it stop DSS benefit fraud.
Spain has ID cards and has benefit fraud. They have cut down on it by a biometric system for claimants. Such a system has a value in as much as it is a detterent and works a bit. It is self-financing if employed properly.
The UK could introduce such a system but will not because it lessens the case for ID cards. Meantime you and I are "paying" by virtue of missappropriated DSS money - money that is targetted at the poorest people in society.
That is a scandal.
ID cards do not work and I challenge anyone to prove different.
As to 9/11 remember these guys did not disguise their ID at all. They were proud of what they were about to do.
This is a complex subject - civil liberties and so on. There is a simple fact - ID cards don't work.
Chris