Q&A: Florida Governor Signs Welfare Drug-Screen Measure?

Published September 14, 2011

Question by Cybi: Florida governor signs welfare drug-screen measure?
“Saying it is “unfair for Florida taxpayers to subsidize drug addiction,” Gov. Rick Scott on Tuesday signed legislation requiring adults applying for welfare assistance to undergo drug screening.”

What is your opinion of this? Do you think other states will see a benefit to this and start measures like this?

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/06/01/florida.welfare.drug.testing/index.html?hpt=po_bn1
You must be drug free in the majority of workplaces to work. Would anyone contest if someone lost a job for using drugs? Probably not. Why is their disagreement with someone losing benefits for doing the same drug?

Best answer:

Answer by Mr. Smartypants
sounds good but who’s going to pay for all the drug tests? poor Florida, they can’t win even when they win.

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