Why Drug Testing Welfare Recipients is a Waste of Taxpayer Money
Some people in the United States have been accused of taking advantage of this nation's welfare system. Some authorities believe that the government's welfare money have been used for things inappropriate such as drugs and alcohol. As a resolution for this issue, experts have concocted the idea to drug test all welfare recipients to be sure the welfare money will be used for the right reasons.
Recently, Darlena Cunha has stated that this resolution is simply a waste if taxpayer dollars. In Tennessee, where a law was enacted requiring welfare recipients to take a drug test, out of the first 800 tests, only one came back positive. The other 799 people tested negative and, in essence, wasted the money that went into the the testing.
It's been determined that only 8% of welfare recipients actually use any part of the money for drugs. This percentage is far too small to spend the colossal amount of money on trying to prevent it. The only benefit that would result from the testing would be satisfaction from taxpayers who are ignorantly assuming that their money is going to the right cause.
Drug tests would be good for catching drug addicts that would waste the extra welfare money on, but administering these tests are way too expense for the government for afford. As long as that is true, drug addicts will take advantage of the money for drug money.
ReplyDeleteThis article surprised me very much. I thought there would be way more than one positive result out of 800 people. I expected that number to be in the 75-150 range. Hearing about this idea before reading the article, I would have been all for drug testing the welfare recipients. After hearing the results, I would agree with the article and say it's not worth it to spend all that money, when only about 8% of the tests are coming back positive.
ReplyDeleteI see the point this article is making. But if people had to take drug tests in cities with a high crime rate I feel like the number would be much harder. I would love to know what part of Tennessee the drug tests were taken in.
ReplyDeleteIf you have money for drugs than you, shouldn't be on welfare, I feel like we should drug test people who are on welfare but I do realize that it would be a huge waste of taxpayers money.
ReplyDeleteTaking the time to drug test everyone who is on welfare isn't the way i want my tax money being spent. Its pointless, no matter what kind of system is in place there are always people who abuse the system.
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