Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!pacbell.com!att!cbnewse!cwpjr From: cwpjr@cbnewse.att.com (clyde.w.jr.phillips) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Lifestyle Information ( was Re: Safeway Stores to Accept Charge Summary: Business (forced and/or Willing) to be bad govmt's big brother Message-ID: <1991Apr30.143000.17493@cbnewse.att.com> Date: 30 Apr 91 14:30:00 GMT References: <1991Apr20.022809.10259@svc.portal.com> Distribution: na Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 33 In article <1991Apr20.022809.10259@svc.portal.com>, gundrum@svc.portal.com writes: > > It would be a lot easier, and more in line with the way the government > > does things, to force the businesses to check draft cards. > > The government already requires businesses to record some form of > identification (typically a driver's license) verifying your right to work > in the U.S. This is painfully close to a national I.D. system. Now you want > to make it the same card throughout the country? That scares me. :-( > > -- Were y'all been. Business is required to Verify: 1) Your work eligablity 2) Your citizenship 3) Your tax pre-payment 4) In some instances your body chemistry 5) In some instances your lack of political affiliation The usual penalty for most of this stuff starts at $10,000 per offense. Squarly in the range of small business strong arm amounts. If the recession weren't shutting down the poor small businesses in record numbers these regulations would. As it stands the scrambling to build new small businesses to replace the ones done in by the recession may well be curtailed by innocent non-compliance ( scrambling in ignorance ). This "overhead" to run a small business will deter many also. Just another brick in the wall, that's all. Clyde