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Wednesday, August 31 - 7:25am

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Well, the question is how dangerous is identity theft in a country where there are no national ID-cards?

I think it should be not too bad, as long as the police doesn't act only on this info. Especially today, you can be in a bad situation without your own knowledge. One possibility to limit identity theft is a national ID card, which is a difficult thing, because your private life will get translucent to the government. (just check EU biometrical passports and German national ID laws)

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Wednesday, August 31 - 8:35am

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Thanks Max.

Michael, don't think your 'politically/socially conservative' thing holds. You'll notice Georga is high, SC, NC, VA, TN, ARK, OKLA,MO, KN, all rank middle.

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Wednesday, August 31 - 8:40am

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Another idea, I just stumbled upon, is that national ID card would not stop ID theft (although limit it), because it would just start a competition to be more perfect in copying and faking IDs. I think it would also start a shadow-industry that then would produce even cheaper fake IDs due to more effective processes.

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Wednesday, August 31 - 9:16am

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Another idea, I just stumbled upon, is that national ID card would not stop ID theft (although limit it), because it would just start a competition to be more perfect in copying and faking IDs. I think it would also start a shadow-industry that then would produce even cheaper fake IDs due to more effective processes.

Of course.

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Friday, September 2 - 12:05pm

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Robert Davison wrote: Michael, don't think your 'politically/socially conservative' thing holds. You'll notice Georga is high, SC, NC, VA, TN, ARK, OKLA,MO, KN, all rank middle.

The facts are what they are. You can look at one factor or several. The more factors you can correlate, the closer you are the truth. I took two. It might be pointed out that the states you cite are indeed in the middle of the road. America is a conservative country -- but we have had 75 years (two generations) of the welfare state. Even Ronald Reagan quoted Franklin D. Roosevelt. The traditional American values that you and I would recognize seem most lilkely found in the states with the lowest rates of identity theft -- and the best economic growth, Maine and Montana, for instance.