re: Do you think people on Welfare should be drug tested?

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Expensive af... yes. T

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I find this position highly dubious.

How much does a single drug test cost? Now if failure would disqualify you for a whole year, how much money would be saved by catching even one drug user? If you can pay for 5 drug tests with one month's entitlement, then if you catch one out of 60 users, you're breaking even.

To make it even more cost effective, don't drug test everyone at regular intervals, test randomly at irregular intervals. Make it impossible to predict. You don't have to test everyone, simply create a sense of plausibility that someone could be tested at any time, and failure means a no-bullshite immediate suspension of entitlement funding.