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How is it helpful to NOT fund them? You can't nanny people at their lowest points. Maybe you give them money and they spend it unwisely, though not on drugs? Maybe they spend it on alcohol, which isn't a drug that will get you kicked off?
The point is that the alternative is worse. Cutting people's money off won't cure their addiction. It will just force them to alternative means of income, ie crime. Or they'll die. Or suffer worse than they already are.
I agree that we should be helping them get off addiction, rather than just letting them do whatever, but our society doesn't really care about treating drug addiction, just punishing it.
I believe that these sorts of laws would not hold up if challenged in courts- a law to force political candidates to take drug tests was thrown out by the courts as unconstitutional- the only people who can be forced to take drug tests are those who could endanger the public- train engineers, airplane pilots etc. welfare and unemployment receiptiants are not in that sort of category- these laws will be challenged and will get tossed out-
Drug testing is expensive and of course the cost would be passed on to the tax payers.
Druggies know ways around passing them; there are even people who sell clean urine to them over the internet.
I'm more in favor or requiring participation in a job training program.
I'm with you. Or there should be community service work that should be required. Nothing that costs the taxpayers MORE MONEY should be even a figment in anyone's imagination!
Should people who receive welfare benefits be randomly drug tested?
Because I have a company car, my employer subjects me to random drug-screenings...should the same standard apply to those who receive welfare?
I believe that it should. If I'm being tested periodically to do the work that provides the taxation which in turn provides the funding for welfare...they should be tested as well.
Fear on the part of those that wouldn't pass the test.
No, fear of what would happend if you refuse. Loss of job, etc. It's a "guilty unless you prove yourself innocent" issue and for most people it's not appropriate and won't do anything but cost a lot of time and money.
It would probably cost more to administer the tests than it would save in the long run.
Didn't they do this in Florida and it ended up being a huge disaster?
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Should people who receive welfare benefits be randomly drug tested?
