I get tested in order to fund their habits.
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Do you think people on public aid should be drug tested?
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2012/08/06 19:10:04
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R. 2012/08/06 19:47:47None of the above






















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BUT drug testing them is somewhat an invasion of privacy. However, if we are giving them money from others, why would we permit something illegal for them to act in?
- Maybe I should change my answer to 'yes.' I guess I had to type it out to decide: if the government is going to help someone out, they should not permit those people to do illegal things. I know it's an invasion of privacy, but the answer is if they are on drugs, just let it go and don't give them aid.
It's just hard for me because a part of me wants to say that people should do what they want. Sigh sigh.
If requirements were put on voting, we could easily and quickly come to the point where anyone who worked for one of the above employers could be disenfranchised. After that, if politicians wanted to disenfranchise more people, it would probably come from loopy Elizabeth Warren thinking like "well, we all use roads, blah blah, so we're all on the dole." ;)
It's true that only land owners used to be able to vote. While this made it harder for government to arbitrarily redistribute wealth downward, it could also have made it easier for government to arbitrarily redistribute wealth upward, either directly or indirectly. (BTW, you might be interested in Frederic Bastiat's "The Law," actually.) Ultimately, I don't think these problems can be solved by restricting voting; I think they can only be solved by severely r...
If requirements were put on voting, we could easily and quickly come to the point where anyone who worked for one of the above employers could be disenfranchised. After that, if politicians wanted to disenfranchise more people, it would probably come from loopy Elizabeth Warren thinking like "well, we all use roads, blah blah, so we're all on the dole." ;)
It's true that only land owners used to be able to vote. While this made it harder for government to arbitrarily redistribute wealth downward, it could also have made it easier for government to arbitrarily redistribute wealth upward, either directly or indirectly. (BTW, you might be interested in Frederic Bastiat's "The Law," actually.) Ultimately, I don't think these problems can be solved by restricting voting; I think they can only be solved by severely restricting the powers of government altogether.
Back to corporate welfare for a moment:
Most people wouldn't consider this corporate welfare par say, but on a much more subtle plane, you have a plethora of regulations which (inadvertantly or not) harm small companies more than larger corporations, thereby giving them an unnatural competitive advantage. (Most people have trouble navigating the actual impact of regulations though, so they don't realize how this happens.)
I hate to say it but I believe my idea of those on the government dole should not vote to be wrong. I thank you for your time and enlightening me, Have a good one
That said, I've read that drug testing welfare beneficiaries is little more than a "feel-good, do-nothing" political maneuver that costs more money than it saves. I'm not sure if that's the case or not, since I can't cite any figures from the top of my head, but I'd urge caution in any case. It's also important to remember that almost anyone can get off of a hard drug long enough to pass a drug test, so drug tests are really only good for weeding out pot smokers anyway, rather than the kind of people who are seriously addicted and likely to spend their aid money on drugs. (For that matter, you're just as likely to "catch" someone who got their pot for free from a friend as someone who spent aid money on it.)