Social Security and Medicare too? How about an ethanol subsidy? How about a grain price support program? How about a manufacturing development grant?
How are you going to put this drug testing regime in place where it doesn't continually expand (as all government initiatives do) to have mandatory testing of everybody but mountain hermits?
People who have SS and Medicaire paid into the system and they -worked- to earn it.
You don’t have to pay diddly squat into anything to get welfare.
Odds are pretty good that *those* people already have been subjected to drug tests.
Hubby worked at the state prison and he had a date with the cup regularly, just like all the other guards and employees.
Before that, he worked for Mack, Pangborn and Fairchild as a welder/metal fabricator.
They all randomly test employees.
Before that, he was a long haul truck driver and had to pass drug screenings all the time.
IMO, if you’re milking the government cow, the cow has a right to make sure your hands are clean.