President Trump Work & Drug Tests for Subsidies

Discussion in 'Politicants' started by Tenacious D, Apr 12, 2018.

  1. fl0at_

    fl0at_ Humorless, asinine, joyless pr*ck

    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?
     
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  2. kptvol

    kptvol Super Moderator

    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.
     
  3. Volst53

    Volst53 Super Moderator

    I don’t think drug use should be a crime or like federal welfare.
     
  4. JayVols

    JayVols Walleye Catchin' Moderator

    Very true.

    I didn't use the word "huge". You did. There's a lot of ground between nothing and "huge".
     
  5. JayVols

    JayVols Walleye Catchin' Moderator

    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.
     
  6. kptvol

    kptvol Super Moderator

    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.
     
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  7. JayVols

    JayVols Walleye Catchin' Moderator

    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.
     
  8. kptvol

    kptvol Super Moderator

    Hoho. Jay complaining about snarkiness. Now we’re getting somewhere.
     
  9. JayVols

    JayVols Walleye Catchin' Moderator

    100% fair criticism.
     
  10. VolDad

    VolDad Super Moderator

    Saw something this morning that giving everyone in the country a livable income would be 3 Trillion of our 4 Trillion dollar budget.
     
  11. kptvol

    kptvol Super Moderator

    Disagree.
     
  12. kptvol

    kptvol Super Moderator

    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.
     
  13. VolDad

    VolDad Super Moderator

    Professers example was 300 m people x $10,000 per year

     
  14. kidbourbon

    kidbourbon Well-Known Member

    Fewer
     
  15. JayVols

    JayVols Walleye Catchin' Moderator

    You cheeky bastage.....

    Haha
     
  16. The Dooz

    The Dooz Super Moderator

    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.
     
  17. emainvol

    emainvol Administrator

    Correct, but "a few fewer" is an awkward phrase, and this is a very casual conversation.
     
  18. kptvol

    kptvol Super Moderator

    Fuhrer
     
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  19. kidbourbon

    kidbourbon Well-Known Member


    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.
     
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  20. Dalekanium

    Dalekanium Chieftain

    Mama smoked some weed so the kids don’t get to eat. Sounds like Republican policy to me.
     

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