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Originally Posted by mookiemookie
First off, the Fourth Amendment says the government can't search you without probable cause.
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No violation of the 4th amendment as applying for welfare is not mandated by the government. It is done by choice, and thus its requirements fall under said choice.
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Let's talk money and math. How many drug addicts do you think you're going to catch here out of all the welfare recipients tested? 20%? 10%? 1%?
Let's look at Florida, where a similar law was put into place:
Waste of my taxpayer dollars. 
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What the premise of "how many are you going to catch" fails to take into account is simple - how many people heard about the law, knew they would be tested - and knew they would fail? How many didn't even apply because of it? More than enough to make up that $118k for sure.
Something to think about.....