Asking For ID To Vote Is Racist, But This Is Not Because Only Whites Pay Taxes?

Written By BlabberBuzz | Sunday, 23 January 2022 11:45 PM
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Asking For ID To Vote Is Racist, But This Is Not Because Only Whites Pay Taxes?

Queue the jokes. Democrats have argued that asking for an ID at the voting booth is racist, but yet they are now requiring an ID to access your online taxes. All this tells anyone is that Democrats believe that most minorities don't pay taxes, therefore never need access to their online forms - this is the most racist thing of all.

The IRS will soon direct payers to show selfies in order to deliver more secure access to certain tools and applications on its website.

The additional layer of facial recognition will be required from the summer of 2022 onward in order to log in to the IRS website and access the Child Tax Credit Update Portal, check online accounts, get tax transcripts, or view online payment agreements.

Nevertheless, the IRS said people won't be demanded to offer a selfie or go through facial recognition software to submit their tax returns.

Previously, a simple username and password were all that was needed to access the website, but starting later this year, taxpayers will need to create an account with the identity verification company ID.me by providing a government-issued document with a photo, such as a driver's license or passport, and also take a video selfie of themselves using a phone or computer.

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"Identity verification is critical to protect taxpayers and their information," IRS Commissioner Chuck Rettig said in a statement. "The IRS has been working hard to make improvements in this area, and this new verification process is designed to make IRS online applications as secure as possible for people."

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Any existing IRS accounts will work until the summer, and then taxpayers will have to create a new account with ID.me to resume access to the full range of tools on the IRS website.

ID.me is a technology company that provides secure identity verification by comparing a government-issued photo ID provided by a user with a video selfie submitted. Alongside the photo ID and video selfie, taxpayers will also have to provide ID.me with an email address and Social Security number to be fully verified.

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Some privacy advocates expressed criticism regarding the new IRS policy, saying that it would raise the prospect of sensitive personal information being abused.

"Very s***** short-term decision making which will only lead to further ruin for Americans when their data is inevitably breached," tweeted Jackie Singh, director of technology and operations at the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project.

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"Now that Facebook has 'deleted' their data I guess it needs to come from elsewhere," she added.

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