Ok, so you aren’t going to help an addict kick addiction, and you’ve just taken away their ability to pay for it. So they’re gonna end up in prison. Now how expensive are they?
Drug tests aren’t that hard to beat. Effectiveness is the reason this isn’t a good idea, not some stats that say welfare recipients don’t use drugs.
Very true. I didn't use the word "huge". You did. There's a lot of ground between nothing and "huge".
Unless your usual routine is to donate millions of dollars, this is a completely hollow strawman rebuttal not worthy of a response. If you have donated those sums in the past, congratulations on your tremendous success, and I applaud your protest by using whatever means you have at your disposal.
I’ve had a lot of success at not doing things. The empty space on my resume would produce shock and awe in any reader.
Congratulations. If you're being too obtuse or just plainly refuse to see the difference between never doing something & ceasing normal activities because one disagrees with the state of a situation, there's nothing more to discuss. But by all means, feel free to continue the snarkfest of irrelevancy.
Saw something this morning that giving everyone in the country a livable income would be 3 Trillion of our 4 Trillion dollar budget.
Who all is eligible for the income? Anyone over 18? We’ve got around 246 million such folks, out of three trillion that comes out to around 12,000/person/year.
I’ve often done debt to income ratios in the past with clients and we used to ask what, if any, income they drew in the form of assistance. While some did receive full disability, as an example, a lot more only received a small amount of assistance, maybe 20-30 a month in food stamps. Now, I don’t pretend to know what a drug testing program is going to cost, and I might even support it, for an individual, but it certainly seems like a colossal waste if it’s more that the assistance the person receives.
I'm not actually a usage nazi. I just always do that one, because my dad always does it, and I can't seem to help myself.