Thread: Arizona bill requires ID to get food stamps

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Arizona bill requires ID to get food stamps

Phoenix Business Journal by Mike Sunnucks, Senior Reporter

Conservatives traditionally don’t like the idea of national identification cards, citing Orwellian “big brother” fears. Those same concerns aren’t always held when it comes to trying to keep illegal immigrants from getting jobs or welfare benefits.

Some Arizona Republican lawmakers have introduced new bill at the Legislature requiring those receiving food stamps in the state to have a state-issued identification card. They would then have to produce that card and another form of identification when buying groceries via the assistance program.

Arizona Reps. Carl Seel and Jack Harper are the main sponsors. Both are Republicans.

There are 1.1 million Arizonans on food stamps and $46.2 million Americans, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Arizona House Bill 2582 is being considered by state lawmakers. It’s aimed at cutting into fraud.

On the immigration and workforce front, Republican presidential combatants Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich have talked up the idea of workplace identification cards for workers to help weed out illegal immigrant workers.

Source: Arizona bill requires ID to get food stamps - Phoenix Business Journal

You can't drive without insurance in most states, you can't open a bank account without a social security card, you can't send your kids to school with out birth certificates and certain vaccines etc every year, you can't collect social security without a SS number and etc. I don't like it, but it is the way things are done.

Arizona bill requires ID to get food stamps

but this is a problem what am I missing here????