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Barcode asked in HealthMen's Health · 1 decade ago

Shoudn't Everyone Have To Pass A Urine Test?

Like most folks in this country, I have a job. I work, they pay me. I pay my taxes and the government distributes my taxes as it sees fit. In order to get that paycheck in my case, I am required to pass a random urine test (with which I have no problem). What I do have a problem with is the distribution of my taxes to people who don't have to pass a urine test.

So, here is my Question: Shouldn't one have to pass a urine test to get a welfare check because I have to pass one to earn it for them?

Please understand, I have no problem with helping people get back on their feet. I do, on the other hand, have a problem with helping someone sitting on their a$$ - doing drugs, while I work. . . . Can you imagine how much money each state would save if people had to pass a urine test to get a public assistance check?

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  • Paul D
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago
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    You got some whacky logic. You agreed to the job and it's random drug testing. They didn't agree to anything. What are you going to do if they fail a piss test? Fire them? lol. Or no, take them off welfare and let them get really desperate and rob your house!

  • 8 years ago

    On one hand that is a very simple yet profound thought and question. I agree with the logic 100% but practical application of that concept would be devastating. I myself grew up an only child in a single parent household and all my mom did was party and get laid by different guys all the time. (I know, what an F-ing loser) We received both food-stamps and welfare in large part not for my loser mom but so that I would be taken care of. I'm now 18 and in my first year of college at ASU. As soon as I turned 18 my mom lost her welfare benefits and foodstamps. I work part time and will probably work for the rest of my life so in a way the taxes I am paying are a repayment for the benefit I received. It would be great for states to save millions of dollars but not at the expense of having undeserving children suffer for their parents screw ups. I will also ad that I never knew my dad and my grand parents were worthless as they just sat there and watched me do without and never offered to help. The most they ever did was buy me a few paid of socks and briefs for Christmas. I guess I should not complain because I was never suppose to be their responsibility either.

    I just don't understand why people who have so much to be thankful for complain about others less fortunate benefiting from their taxes. I wish I had enough money to repay you your phucking tax money, maybe you would sleep better at night.

  • Carol
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    1. Drug tests are easy to beat. 2. Drug tests give false positives. 3. The government has no business giving handouts to anyone. 4. Drunks are just as bad and yet drug tests ignore them. Just eliminate welfare completely and let those who will not work starve or get their assistance through charities or their church, that is what they are allegedly there for. I have never taken a drug test in my life and I make a good living. Furthermore, I would never work for a company that insists to know what I may or may not do on my own time, it is none of their business what I may or may not do in the privacy of my own home. Also, why single out recreational drug users, what about the useless drunk sitting on his butt while you work. Drug tests don't even look for that.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Yes they should and if they want to rob my house when they get cut off of welfare they can meet my desert eagle.

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  • 7 years ago

    No.

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  • 1 decade ago

    I don't think that it is that clear cut though.

    There would be so many more homeless people and crime

    as a result of people not getting their welfare checks.

    However, the government needs to have programs to

    essentially force them to look for work or go to school.

    I think a big reason behind this conundrum is that our

    school systems are failing miserably. There are jobs and

    careers out there, but not enough "qualified" people to fill

    them. Not enough people have the life skills to even hold

    a job down.

    It is a vicious circle in most poverty-stricken areas.

  • 1 decade ago

    from your tone i assume you are from the USA, in the UK we do not have this system, it contravenes our human rights.

    The question is if the people who take drugs can not get help from the welfare how will they manage, perhaps they would mug old people or rob houses or kill some one. i do not like the drug takers but the people we should get is the pusher put them in singsing and take all there mony to fund a drug rehab program , i donot like my taxes going on stupid things but it happens

  • 1 decade ago

    I agree i work my a$$ off 5 days a week and it really bothers me all the taxes i pay that go to drug users sitting on there couch getting high all day so i say give them a urine test

  • M.D.
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    Can you imagine how much money it would cause to preform all these tests? People would just find a way around it anyways. Unfortunately we have to deal with these until the system is reformed.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Yes, this question about drug testing welfare recipients has been raised before and I totally support it. Opponents say the testing procedures are not fool-proof and would waste more money than they save by cutting down total recipients. Or that it would end up punishing the kids of parents who live off welfare.

    I don't care! Test the freeloaders and punish those who live off others!

    Yo Paul - as soon as they try robbing houses we can really take them out.

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