Minnesota Passes Controversial Drug Testing Law For Welfare Recipients

Allison Geller, Tue, December 31, 2013
Taxpayers and poor families may be the real targets of a new Minnesota law meant to stop drug users from receiving welfare.

The law was meant to save taxpayers money by making welfare recipients more accountable. However, the mandatory drug testing policy comes with a host of local mandates, rules and paperwork that taxpayers will be forced to help fund, only to affect a handful of 167,000 Minnesota residents on welfare.

Rep. Steve Drazkowski, the Republican who sponsored the legislation, said he wrote the law to address concerns in his hometown over drug users abusing the welfare system.

“The question is, ‘What is happening to our dollars?’” Drazkowski asked. “Are the dollars going into someone’s veins? Or to the kids? Drug testing addresses that.”

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WTF? I expect this from Florida, not Minn....