re: Trump may allow drug testing for food stamps

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Urinalysis is what they're using. Say it's $10/ person to run a urinalysis (not including salary for the pee-watchers) and a state has 1.5 million on the rolls (such as my state of Georgia), your cost is roughly $15M/month or $180M per year.

The average food stamp recipient in Georgia gets $128/ month.

The program would have to "catch" roughly 120,000 offenders to break even

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Only if this is the only data you consider.

What about the economic benefits of having fewer people in society doing drugs...fewer people needing rehab (paid by insurers), greater productivity in the work place, lower crime rates, etc., etc., etc?