"When Social Security was first foisted on America, the cards were imprinted with, "Not to be used for Identification."
Someone needs to tell that to the DMV and schools.
Oh, but driving is a PRIVILEDGE, remember? That's what people keep telling me. Courts have deemed that while the feds can't use SSNs as IDs, it's not their problem if a state requires you participate in a federal retirement pyramid scheme ... and not their problem that the state won't get federal money if they don't require the SSN. So long as the buck doesn't stop anywhere, lots of official prohibitions on gov't behavior are moot.
Conservatives seem to be morphing into socialists as well, with comments like "don't want to give your SSN to the DMV? walk!" and "everyone needs to prove their citizenship on demand lest those illegal immigrants might get access to our untouchable welfare system". Gack.