I was literally just thinking about this a couple days ago as a way that things might reasonably develop with mass surveillance, while going horribly, horribly wrong.
Almost can't believe it's real.
If they go ahead with this, what is next?
This seems like a really bad idea, if you want to use credit score to judge whether or not to load money. Thrifty people in the US are not all Libertarians, for example, nor are all Democrats likely to welsh on their car payments. If they idea is to encourage political conformity, it still seems like a bad idea. Lots of people will change their apparent allegiance for a few bucks. But it won't stay changed, nor can you rely on that apparent allegiance for much. So, WTF?