Holland Sentinel, 22 Jan 2013 – Holland – In response to William Hapner’s letter in Friday’s Sentinel calling for drug tests for people applying for welfare: Florida is not the first state to enact a drug testing requirement for welfare recipients. Michigan enacted such a law many years ago, as did a handful of other states. These laws are not enforced because they were consistently found to be unconstitutional. In addition to being unconstitutional, these laws have proven counter-productive. Florida already tried this before, and found that the law cost the state far more money than it saved, and that’s just in direct costs. Factor in the indirect costs associated with increased crime and burden-shifting and these laws are a fiscal disaster
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