I think it would be more taxpayer-efficient, instead of drug testing, to implement a work requirement, similar to what Maine has.
If you want to take taxpayer money to feed your drug habit, so-be-it. It will only be a short period, as the system then weeds you out.
Drug test all direct recipients of tax funds, government employees, all levels. Every three months for welfare, every six months for employees. Background check all government employees annually.
This sounds good in theory, but in other states the practice did not go well. Florida ended up spending millions of dollars on testing to stop a few hundred people from collecting EBT. I am at work and can’t research it right now, but they ended up spending ten times more drug testing, than they stopped paying out in EBT.
If its truly about cutting costs and saving money, it makes no sense.
Way back when, when I was taught civics, Congress used to be responsible for passing laws. Not the President. The President is supposed to sign the laws, not write them with a cell phone and a pen.
So shouldn't Congress fix this situation, by passing a new law? Or is that some old-fashioned notion of how the American form of government is supposed to work?
Drug test them all? Kids, babies, all the rest?
i gotta take a drug test to make the money they take in taxes, the scum at the other end of the line should have to take a test before they get to spend it...most working people can be subjected to drug tests.
the people living off workers ought to also be tested.
And food stamps should be denied individuals who test positive for cannabis.
With all due respect, conservatives who support this aren’t thinking very far ahead. Once the precedent has been set that the government can require recipients of government programs to waive their constitutional rights—in this case, Fourth Amendment rights—there’s no telling where this thing will go. They could require, for example, people to waive their Second Amendment rights to have their children in the public schools. Don’t like it? Don’t use the schools. For that matter, the sidewalks are owned by the government, too. Lets just ban gun possession there. After all, all you have to do to keep your rights intact is not use the sidewalk.
And while we’re at it, let’s test granny on Social Security. It’s true that she payed into the SS fund, but most people on NA have jobs and pay taxes too—they qualify because their jobs don’t pay enough to live on. Money is fungible and the fact that the money NA users pay into the general fund isn’t earmarked for that specific purpose like OASDI is means nothing.
Just a few thoughts.