mrstickball on 07 January 2010
| famousringo said: I can understand the principle behind this objection, but I can only see this increasing crime rates and all the costs associated with them. The annual price of incarcerating somebody is huge, probably at least twice as high as keeping a person on welfare. Then you can throw in the cost of regularly testing all recipients for drugs, other justice costs (police, lawyers, etc.), the cost of criminal damages... I just don't see it paying off. Maybe I'm wrong. The only way to know is for some jurisdiction to try it and track the results. |
I don't think you have to jail them if they fail. I mean, you can fail a drug test at an employer, and they don't throw you in jail.
Such drug tests are very cheap, given the amount of welfare money that is usually given to people. Drug tests cost ~$50 in the US (if not less)....That is a fraction of one month's government assistance.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
