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Why is my tax money going to pointless shit like this. Why is going on a plane different then a train or bus?
by tayo42 4y ago
Why is my tax money going to pointless shit like this. Why is going on a plane different then a train or bus?
- Madmallard 4y agoworld trade center
- refulgentis 4y agoKinetic energy is the product of mass and the square of velocity, so the energy of a plan is a few orders of magnitude greater than a bus. Train is on rails
- vkou 4y ago> Why is my tax money going to pointless shit like this. Because something must be done, this is something, so we are doing it. Also, less flippantly, because the TSA has been pushing for REAL-ID for the past 20 years, and every year, the required adoption date for it has been pushed back by a year. I believe the current 'deadline' is May 2025 (Pushed back from May 2023). There's no national id, and not all states are in compliance with their mandates, so they are de-facto building their own.
- killalllfaggots 4y ago[dead]
- AlotOfReading 4y agoThey have only themselves to blame for many of the issues with REAL-ID. The mandatory requirements are onerous and worse, they were repeatedly changed and miscommunicated with state programs. CA ended cancelling millions of previously issued ids a few years back. Thankfully mine wasn't one of them because I've never been able to sufficiently prove where I reside with any combination of passports, voter registration cards, and online utility bills to the satisfaction of random DMV employees.
- akmarinov 4y agoBecause public transport other than planes is so atrophied in the US that no one even considers trains and buses.
- rs999gti 4y agoVoters got scared, politicians made feel good legislation that took away rights, and voters/politicians passed those laws to feel safer and make it seem like something was being done.