Bill to remove work permit requirement for children under 16 goes to Sarah Sanders

[Dill]

(04-19-2023, 04:44 PM)basballguy Wrote: Why would "the left" (whoever that is) be outraged over removing "any type of ID validation"?  
 
Oh Dill, you know exactly why and you're just making me say it. 
It was a shot at Democrats being very lax on voter ID laws.  Dems care about ID laws only when it benefits them.  

I was hoping that you were NOT referring to voter ID laws.

We've had a number of discussions about voter id laws on this thread, Starting back in 2016 when Trump claimed that 3-5 million illegals 
voted, giving Hilary the popular vote.

New voter ID laws were in big part a response to that "little" lie (in contrast to Trump's BIG LIE). 

Over the years and many threads in this forum, no supporter of voter ID laws has been able to show that they address any actual problem worth the cost of implementing such laws. Those opposed have detailed the costs, and reminded people that organized fraud at the county and state level are much more serious, and these cannot be addressed by voter ID laws.

Further, such laws tend to reduce Dem votes, and appear designed to do that, along with the many other "voter integrity" initiatives put forward by the GOP.


Dems are not "for" or "against" IDs in principle--only those which seem designed to benefit one party and not the public. E.g., Dems would likely be against requiring a gov. ID for getting kids into school, as there are no apparent benefits (the current system works fine) but considerable costs in implementation. "Both sides" have been and continue to be against a national id. 

Since right wingers used to be against any form of gov. id, but suddenly changed tack when Trump took over the party, it is rather odd to claim Dems
care about ID laws "only when it benefits them."  They care about ID laws when it serves the public interest.