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Yes, and we saddle driver's licenses with all kinds of other things, at least technically: alimony paid, registered for the draft, etc.

But that just illustrates that making some economically-mandatory action into a privilege make the license to that action into a powerful instrument of control. Hence, the No-Fly List, nominally For Your Safety, but mostly To Control You.



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