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Imagine a country of 146 million workers, where a massive database maintained by hapless bureaucrats determines who can hold a job. It's a place where simple statistical error alone can annually deny work to half a million of these workers, and those lucky enough to appeal the error must wait months, even years, to reenter the labor pool.

Such a system would ingrain and institutionalize identity theft, cause huge distortions in the labor market, and create a netherworld of illegal employment just like prohibition in the 1920s ingrained organized crime and created a subterranean economy based on illegal booze.

Sound far-fetched? Well, it's far closer to reality than you think. Find out about HR 1515.