Florida’s Governor Rick Scott has signed a new law that would make it mandatory for welfare recipients to be drug tested. Scott says American tax payer dollars should not be subsidizing the drug habits of the poor. Scott recently made it mandatory for state employees working under him to undergo random urinalyses. On a CNN interview Scott was asked what evidence he had that the poor were using welfare monies to buy drugs. He was asked this question twice. And twice he said there are studies that indicate that it is true.
In a follow up interview, CNN talked to Howard Simon of the ACLU. Simon said that only one study of drug use among welfare recipients had been conducted in Florida. He further stated the study was ended when no evidence of said drug use could be found.
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