re: #155 Eclectic Cyborg

Mississippi, celebrating 150 years of crazy and counting…

MS House passes welfare drug testing bill

Here’s the thing that gets me about this. Every time, every variation of this has shown that this is pretty much a waste of time. It’s an expensive excess burden that discovers most - as in at least 98% and more typically 99.8% - of the people getting assistance don’t use - either because they don’t want or can’t afford - drugs.

I really and truly want to see these legislatures pass bills that require as frequent a test of themselves as they require of others, with as significant a penalty. Won’t happen, of course, but it’s what I want.