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Most of those are optional. You can use cash, you don't need a bank account, nor electronic tolling, or bill payment, emergency room visits are free and there's free clinics. Other various things like legal proceedings, voter reg, and taxes are not things that are "tracked", that's just basic citizenship requirements.

A national ID would make the few cases where you need to hide your identity (like you're a 10 year old girl who was raped and needs an abortion, or the doctor that needs to perform it - https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/10-year-old-rape-v...) much harder. Until our government decides not to be so fucking crazy, we need to push back on its ability to unjustly track and then punish its citizens.



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