Really bad idea to let the government track and trace every penny you spend with a digital ID. Look at China's system and their social credit score. You say bad things about your government in China and your social score plummets. Now you can't shop in certain places or use certain forms of transportation. The real question is why our government chooses not to properly investigate fraud and properly vet those who apply for funds. Instead they have hired tons of new IRS agents to go after the law abiding taxpayers.

If they're that worried about people getting a few extra scraps they must really be mad about all the PPP loan fraud, right?

Yeah absolutely not. No digital ID ever. The government cant be trusted not to abuse it.

Omfg this was brought up before the package was passed and everyone said this would happen.

Also, let’s police congress, their stock trades, and their bank accounts, too.

If we can imagine the worst, then we can plan for the risks.

There are enough mature encryption tech and robust processes to ensure your digital data is all protected, and only given to those that have need to know access.

The digital identity is becoming a larger part of everyone's life. Ignoring it, thinking it's still some kind of alternative reality where anyone can escape is the wrong way to go about managing a country in the digital era. The anonymous side and digitally verified side already coexist today, the government keeping up is a good thing and can be done right.

Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz have left the chat.

Have seen some comments about goverment tracking/surveillance. Just wanted to inform that there are protocols schemas to enable self sovereign identities where the holders can share verifiable proof of credentials issued by the goverment without the government knowing who you share them with. Esencially you could use a digital ID at a bar/bank without the goverment knowing. There are already frameworks stablishing standards and implementations in Europe, Canada, New Zeland...

Yes. Let’s put our identifications solely inside systems susceptible to hacking. That’s a great idea.