From my understanding several U.S. states, including Colorado and California (folks in those states feel free to chime in here), require licensed drivers to be fingerprinted.
Americans collectively, have and continue to, give up many of their natural human rights ... and this trend is likely to continue indefinitely.
Driver licenses already are a defacto national ID card - many states share such data with other states, some of which share such data directly with the fed govt ...
And those states that don't directly share such data with other states often lease/rent/sell drivers license data to marketing companies, etc ... that's among the ways the U.S. federal govt gathers data they can't directly get themselves; 3rd parties - be it private companies, other countries, eavesdropping/backdoors, etc.
So much for "it will never happen" ... for it already has basically happened ... the U.S. govt is now basically just putting on the final touches ...
While on this subject ... foreigners from many other countries are required to be fingerprinted - first it was just folks from a few selet countries, than that was expanded to more, and now there are some serious proposals to require Americans to be fingerprinted too, if they want to travel out of the country ...
The ultimately goal of all of this is total control the population - already one sees this with Generation-Y (people under ~24) is collectively very used to *and accepting of* authority; most have attended schools that operate more like prisons - "lockdown" has become common in many U.S. schools, but I digress.
In a nutshell, national ID is basically already here, and will continue to be further expanded - most all Americans (ie. those who want to drive legally) will have to submit even more personal biometric data (fingerprints, etc) to the government - first it was name, address, etc, then later on it was their stats (height, etc), then their face, then their fingerprint (some states), and eventually who knows - DNA maybe?
Lastly, what is one to do - other than being outraged and discussing such matters with friends, etc, the only real solution, as most often been the case throughout history, is to have money and more importantly have the right connections - it all comes down to know those in power ... folks with power ("kings", and those that are affiliated with them, even in todays world can get away with far more than most of the population ("peasants"); Kings and Peasants is still a reality even today
Ron
p.s. my reply really rambled on ... sorry, I do that sometimes LOL!