You wrote:
BTW should we assume you do not have a bank account or a credit card since both of these require "'verification' of an account holder's identity"???
Should we assume that your use of three question marks represents a sneer on your face?
Why should one have a bank account or a credit card? Neither of these things is especially useful compared to its costs in privacy and liberty. Both are very readily replaced with workable and even superior substitutes.
The identity culture is a bad thing. It is a sad manifestation of the belief that someone else can tell you who you are, whereas you cannot be trusted to tell others who you are. Since we know that the government lies all the time, why should we place any trust in the government's identity papers?
Replacing the banking cartel with a customer service oriented business promoting free market money should be very easy. There is no reason to require ID if one is offered gold or silver, and every reason to be offended by the request if it is made.
Finally, I'd like to point out that you are badly mistaken in your assumption that it is necessary to provide identity papers or even a Social Security number to obtain access to bank accounts or credit cards.
Serious participants in the economy shouldn't be expected to identify themselves. The whole idea of passports, both internal and external, comes from that great Prussian socialist Kaiser Wilhelm.
The world would be a better place if he had been put against a wall and shot early in his career.
Regards,
Jim http://cambist.net/
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