As of late, lawmakers have been pushing an interesting new initiative: to drug test welfare recipients. At a glance, it’s a perfectly reasonable thing to do, though many argue that it’s unconstitutional. But a funny thing started happening when they began drug testing welfare recipients:
Almost no one on welfare tested positive.
In Missouri, almost 39,000 were tested and 48 tested positive. In Kansas, almost 2,800 were tested and 11 tested positive. In Mississippi, 3,650 were tested and among them were 2 positive test results. In Arizona, a whopping 142,000 were tested, resulting in 3 positive drug tests.
In Florida, and this is especially awful, Governor Rick Scott had all of the drug testing done at Solantic, an urgent care chain founded by the governor whose controlling shares are owned by a trust fund in his wife’s name. Talk about shady.
All together, states spent almost $1 million in taxpayer money to out a handful of drug users that were receiving welfare benefits. What a waste.
Now, the American people are turning the tables on the idea and demanding that members of the United States Congress take a drug test in order to prove that their position on drugs isn’t at all hypocritical.
What, a Congressperson, hypocritical? No way.
In a poll of 1,000 American citizens, 64% wanted welfare recipients to submit to a random drug test, but a whopping 78% wanted drug testing to be mandatory for members of congress. 62% said they “strongly” favor it.
86% of Republicans, 77% of Democrats and 75% of unaffiliated voters supported the measure. 66% said that if a Congressperson tested hot for drugs, they should be forced to resign. Only 14% said they should be able to keep their jobs. Not much mercy there, huh?
What do you think? Should Congress be drug tested?
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