Mr. Nask
Freshman English II
17, Feb. 2015
Should welfare recipients be drug tested in order to receive assistance? No, I do not think that welfare recipients should have to be drug tested in order to receive assistance. People that are for drug testing welfare recipients feel like it is not fair that they have to be drug tested in order to maintain a job but people receiving “free money” don’t have to be tested. I feel like they need to think beyond the fairness and think about more important things. It is unconstitutional, could cause children to suffer, and it will cost tax payers even more money. I believe that drug testing welfare recipients is completely against our constitutional rights of the United States. The Fourth Amendment to the United States constitution is the part of the Bill of Rights that prohibits unreasonable searches and seizers and requires probable cause. So if there is no reason to think someone is using drugs, why drug test them? It is harassment for no reason and very judgmental. Studies have found that there is no difference in the amount of drugs used by welfare applicants and other people. (Cohen, 2011) Also a study has shown that seventy percent of drug users between the ages of 18 and 49 are employed full time. (Cohen, 2011) So why target people that are needing welfare? Simply to give the …show more content…
I think that it will just cause them to get worse as a person and decide to make money in an illegal way. The only people that will win from this will be lawyers, testing labs, and industries that sell solutions that help people to pass a drug test. (Jerczak, n.d.) I do not see any positive outcome by drug testing people for welfare. It is unconstitutional, will cause children to suffer, and will cost more money than it