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Trump may allow drug testing for food stamps
Posted on 4/11/18 at 9:05 pm
Posted on 4/11/18 at 9:05 pm
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The Trump administration plans to allow states to require drug testing for food stamps recipients, the Associated Press reported Wednesday afternoon. The report cites internal emails that show United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) officials have been preparing for an announcement since February.
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Current federal rules prohibit states from imposing additional requirements on SNAP-eligible families, and previous attempts to do so have not fared well in the courts. Florida passed a SNAP drug-testing law in 2011, but a federal appeals court struck it down in 2014, arguing that the requirement was a form of unreasonable search. In 2014, Georgia Governor Nathan Deal signed into law a bill that required drug testing of SNAP applicants under "reasonable suspicion of substance abuse." That law, too, was scuttled by a federal appeals court. Direct overtures to the executive branch have also gone unheeded. In 2016, 12 governors asked the federal government for permission to drug test their state's SNAP recipients, but no explicit permission had been granted.
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The drug testing proposal is another step in the Trump administration's push to allow states more flexibility in how they implement federal programs that serve the poor, unemployed or uninsured," according to AP. "It also wants to allow states to tighten work requirements for food stamp recipients and has found support among GOP governors who argue greater state control saves money and reduces dependency."
Posted on 4/11/18 at 9:06 pm to texag7
Good. If you’ve got money to buy weed you’ve got money to buy food.
Posted on 4/11/18 at 9:06 pm to texag7
Good. Want dis gubment food fa free? You gottsta pee
Posted on 4/11/18 at 9:07 pm to texag7
If I need to be tested to WORK, they should be tested to get free food, plain and simple
Everyone wants equality, well here’s a good example of progress, yet I still have the feeling that dems will contest this
Everyone wants equality, well here’s a good example of progress, yet I still have the feeling that dems will contest this
Posted on 4/11/18 at 9:08 pm to texag7
Food stamps?Been a long time since I heard of those.
Posted on 4/11/18 at 9:10 pm to texag7
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Florida passed a SNAP drug-testing law in 2011, but a federal appeals court struck it down in 2014, arguing that the requirement was a form of unreasonable search.
I'm for drug testing for benefits, but this is an interesting argument.
Posted on 4/11/18 at 9:11 pm to texag7
This sounds good in theory but I think the tests end up being really expensive and rarely catch drug users because the prospective recipients know they have to be clean for the tests.
Posted on 4/11/18 at 9:12 pm to tilco
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by tilco
Good. If you’ve got money to buy weed you’ve got money to buy food.
They sell food stamps at discount for cash to buy drugs
At least they used to
Posted on 4/11/18 at 9:20 pm to Little Trump
There was some state down here, Tennessee maybe, that passed this and it's still in place.
I don't feel like Googling it right now but it was something like less than 1% failed tests. It's pointless and costs the government a shite ton of money to conduct these tests.
If they can get a couple more states to run pilot programs and see that the tests are actually resulting in a lil' "bang for the buck" then, by all means, make it a national policy. Otherwise, it's just a waste of taxpayer dollars.
I don't feel like Googling it right now but it was something like less than 1% failed tests. It's pointless and costs the government a shite ton of money to conduct these tests.
If they can get a couple more states to run pilot programs and see that the tests are actually resulting in a lil' "bang for the buck" then, by all means, make it a national policy. Otherwise, it's just a waste of taxpayer dollars.
Posted on 4/11/18 at 9:20 pm to texag7
"allow" hell, it should be mandatory
if you can afford drugs then you arent needy enough to deserve government hand out food stamps. if you priorities are so screwed up you rather buy drugs when you can t afford food then you also dont deserve government hand out food stamps.
if you can afford drugs then you arent needy enough to deserve government hand out food stamps. if you priorities are so screwed up you rather buy drugs when you can t afford food then you also dont deserve government hand out food stamps.
Posted on 4/11/18 at 9:21 pm to mmmmmbeeer
I'm fine with the federal government allowing it. If the states want to waste their money, so be it.
Posted on 4/11/18 at 9:23 pm to Little Trump
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They sell food stamps at discount for cash to buy drugs
At least they used to
They still do. A female dindu sales her foodstamps to other female dindus every month in the break room at work. I don't know what's on dindu's food stamp card but she sales it to the other dindus for $50 cash.
For the record, the main dindu who buys it needs it to feed kids. Cause she's working the government with foster kids for cash and those dindus she's getting money for need to eat.
This is our system.
This post was edited on 4/11/18 at 9:26 pm
Posted on 4/11/18 at 9:25 pm to Little Trump
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They sell food stamps at discount for cash to buy drugs
At least they used to
the way the scam works now is they fill up 2 shopping carts full of food to max out the monthly benefit amount, then they go straight from the register to the return counter and return everything.
you cant credit anything back onto the cards so they get walmart gift card for full cash amount. then they sell the gift card or just buy whatever they want with it.
you see it in walmarts everywhere returning entire overstuffed shopping carts of food, thats what they are doing, turning it into a form of cash money
Posted on 4/11/18 at 9:26 pm to Stacked
How much nuffin would a Dindu do if a Dindu Dindu nuffin?
Posted on 4/11/18 at 9:28 pm to JackieTreehorn
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How much nuffin would a Dindu do if a Dindu Dindu nuffin?
For real the funniest thing I've heard all day.
Posted on 4/11/18 at 9:32 pm to Pecker
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This sounds good in theory but I think the tests end up being really expensive and rarely catch drug users because the prospective recipients know they have to be clean for the tests.
Hair follicle testing used to be cost prohibitive but my understanding is that the costs have gone way down in the last couple of years.
Posted on 4/11/18 at 9:34 pm to texag7
Wow, this proposal is really racist. Minorities wouldn't survive in this country without government assistance. They're simply unable to care for themselves. Now stop being racist, GOPers.
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