If you haven't gotten REAL ID yet, what is your main reason?

If you plan to fly somewhere for spring break or graduation next year, you’ll need more than a standard driver’s license to get on the plane.
REAL ID enforcement will start on May 7, 2025.
The federal government delayed it by two years, giving residents more time to get ID cards that comply with the security requirements.
The Washington State Department of Licensing also saw several effects from the COVID-19 pandemic. Fewer people came in to renew their licenses, and staff numbers declined, which caused a significant backlog in applications.
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[@jackcooper4936]

I’m too busy working and paying taxes so the government can give away our money to lazy drug addicts.

[@anthonyballard8468]

None of yer tax money went to fund the longest modern war in the largest opium producer in the history of mankind?!

[@rocketdogticker]

Not very nice to call "European" bankers that.

[@RevTox]

Government is too busy being racist against black people who they say can't get ID.

[@jackcooper4936]

@@anthonyballard8468 agreed, that is also something I don’t want our money going towards. Being anti big government and anti war is not a stretch, ha ha.

[@Idontcare-g1n]

Liberalism and progressive ideology basically fkd up all the places I wanted to go

[@JTSunriseMusic]

Neoliberalism

[@shovelgirl2680]

😂😂😂

[@RevTox]

Real ID is RACIST . . . or so we were told about requiring ID.

[@JTSunriseMusic]

Your papers please

[@punchkitten874]

So we get our national ID card whether we want to or not. Sure, you don't need to present it to cross state lines, at least not yet. Why isn't the standard Washington State ID card valid according to the US government? Why are they allowed to dictate legistlation to the states?

[@RevTox]

I thought ID requirements were RACIST!

[@royburnacoven3559]

This is unconstitutional. People should be allowed to travel anonymously and unmolested by the government

[@QueenReina6419]

Well the good ol days are over. Flying was never the same after Nine-Eleven.

[@EricaGamet]

You can drive, walk, take a bus, go on horseback. Just not on a plane.

[@RevTox]

@@QueenReina6419 The Constitution seemed to get a lot more brown stains on it after 9-11 and through all the years after that our government wiped with it.

[@RevTox]

Everyone should tell them how RACIST they are being by requiring ID! Isn't that their argument about why we shouldn't require it for voters?

[@KonekoPurrrfection]

Especially within US borders as a citizen.
This clearly won't apply to the illegals just citizens

[@pastureexpectationsfarm6412]

But black people can't get photo ID, so this is a bad idea.

[@RevTox]

Dat's rayciss! You're right. They said black people can't get ID, so it's racist to require one.

[@milanimorales2645]

Every time I went in to get the Real ID, they said the documents were not enough. Birth certificate and SS card was not enough. I needed my voter registration card. Or you can just use the BC and SS card. Why isn't that enough? They are asking for an annoying amount of proof when its obvious I am who I say I am. Plus I don't travel that much. Might drive to TJ, MX

[@QueenReina6419]

I thought it said "TJ-Maxx" i laughed.

[@RevTox]

They keep telling us requiring ID is racist, too. You should tell them they are being racist.

[@skaetur1]

Money.

[@QueenReina6419]

This is annoying. Most of us dont have time for this mumbo-jumbo

[@dispmonk]

I ain’t go anywhere

[@johnfungable2289]

All I need it for is to buy ammo but I need a passport just to get an id. This is extortion.

[@distilledfreedom1840]

Wait so you can just use your passport?

[@SensualWyvern]

Yes

[@jodylancaster8706]

Yes. So what is the big issue here?

[@ZachBurns-gu9zk]

Im am american and i cant even fly home to alaska because of this bullshit.

[@Jimwenten]

I quit flying

[@NekoNebula1313]

I already have a passport. Only time I've fly is out of USA 😅

[@ZachBurns-gu9zk]

So bullshit

[@carminjean5042]

Ok feddy