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Good. After other states implemented this, the number of people collecting food stamps dropped precipitously. Seems like they wouldn't give up their drugs long enough to clean up and pass a pee test. In other words they liked their drugs more than their handouts. Win-win.
So what happened to their children? Are we letting kids go hungry or into our 2onderful foster care system because their parents smoked weed?
And why are the poor being held to a higher moral standard? Everybody benefits from some sort of government expenditure.
Many conservatives certainly feel a need to get back at poor people for being poor and wanting to get on welfare. Requiring drug tests is a well favored way do it, even if it does cost taxpayer money. The drug test companies will pay off the conservative politicians who make the requirement possible. And a lot of conservatives voters feel a need to get back at the poor as well, so they vote to keep the paid off politicians in. All in all everybody is happy, except for those disgusted taxpayers who see through the scheme.
Interesting how conservative politicians haven't come up with a required test for alcoholism. Surely they think all people on welfare head straight for the liquor store, if not the drug pusher first. Don't know how a test for alcohol would work. Probably most poor people have better sense than to show up drunk for their welfare.
Many Americans simply hate the poor. That is disgusting but unfortunately is very true.
Why should someone that works every day and makes that $50k per year have to pass a drug test in order to work...
Presumably because he'd be a liability to his employer if he were to work impeded by drugs. The same can hardly be said for food stamp recipients, now can it?
But you do make it very clear: This is about some sort of twisted revenge, and power. It may cost you more, but by gosh, they need to feel the same humiliation you do when you're ordered about by your betters. Kicking down, it's a human instinct.
The better question would be why US workers are so meek about drug tests where they aren't needed, but that's - uncomfortable - to discuss.
BTW, I have never taken a drug test for work and I make a good deal more than 50K. (I have, and with no issue at all, taken the one required by the Coast Guard for all crew members on passenger vessels. Because that makes hecka sense.)
The average SNAP benefit for a single is $125 per person a month, what does a drug test cost, what will be the frequency of testing.
Someone's getting rich on the taxpayer's dime. And that, too, is a core Republican value: The guy barely making it on the taxpayer's dime is contemptible, the guy buying a mansion on what he can siphon off the public coffers is smart.
Great news! Mandatory drug tests should be a requirement for anyone getting a handout from the taxpayers.
Well, then you would have to also include politicians and require them to take random testing, its only fair, cannot single out one particular group and make others exempt.
I have doubts people on welfare are even getting enough money to feed a drug addiction in the first place, I was a heroin addict for many years, It cost me roughly $150-300 per day to maintain my habit!
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