It may be in the US. Because of Revelation 13:16-17: "16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads; 17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name."
That's why national ID is difficult to sell here. Sorry.
Part of the resistance to national ID is also a question of federalism - we do not officially have a 'national government' - we have a 'federal government', even though in practice it is hardly federal anymore.
I guess if you got your ID by picking it up with your right hand it still is the mark of the beast.
God's perfect wisdom just keeps getting lost in translation, what a shame!
Choose your poison. Carefully.
Either we have a good functioning way to uniquely identify people or we don't. If you have the former, you could use it for evil, in much the same way as how with the later it is used for evil a lot with the various frauds talked about in the OP.
If the government wants to do evil it will do so with or without national ID, but the ability for fraudsters to do evil is dependent on there being no effective and secure universal identification.
I'm going to guarantee that the NSA tracking profiles on every US citizen don't need national ID cards to pick you out of a crowd. They could build a comprehensive identity database from CCTV and store cameras whenever you buy something to build a complete and hardened profile to identify you with. They have access to way more than enough material to start branding the "undesirables" and having them carted off to gas chambers within a week. We just suffer in the meantime under this false belief that ID cards are the make or break of liberty.
I would prefer shitty nonfunctioning systems which still allow me to use cash and buy a bowl of noodles to the alternative where I need to be more or less authorised to make that transaction. But thats just me.