Bluff or Bluster: The Implications of REAL ID in SC
According to the government, you need a REAL ID to fly. According to others? It's just a bluff.
While the REAL ID Act has been in the news lately due to the TSA’s implementation of their “progressive enforcement” rule, REAL ID is nothing new. Elected officials have spent decades attempting to enforce it since the REAL ID Act was passed in 2005. Check out this three minute video of two commenters debating this issue in 2008 on MSNBC. Note how the commenter in favor of REAL ID uses 9/11 and “national security” as her reasoning (arguments we still hear today) and see how Jim Harper from the Cato Institute rebuts this argument:
In 2005, Congress passed a law requiring citizens to have a “National Identification card” and in 2008, the Department of Homeland Security required all state to abide by this law by mandating REAL IDs. More than half the state refused to obey the federal government by passing law prohibiting compliance or…