Remember how conservatives in Florida touted drug testing of welfare recipients in that state as a sure-fire way to save taxpayers bucketloads of money?
Yeah, not so much.
Net savings to the state: $3,400 to $5,000 annually on one month’s worth of rejected applicants. Over 12 months, the money saved on all rejected applicants would add up to $40,800 to $60,000 for a program that state analysts have predicted will cost $178 million this fiscal year.
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It’s not about saving money, it’s about humiliating the poor… and hence a raging success.
So Nikki, I assume you enjoy paying your hard earned tax dollars to crack heads with no jobs and people having kids just so they can get a state check? They do exist. This obviously isn’t a success but they successfully removed people milking the system to feed their heroin habit. I assume you buy all your non-working smoking friends cartons of cigarettes each month too? A hospital drug test (I administer them so I know) costs $42 each. This article is saying a total of 178 million was wasted… So over 4 million people are on Welfare in Florida? I think not. Don’t trust everything you see on tv, unless you can find me a talking backpack and mailbox.