Persuasive Essay On Mandatory Drug Testing

According to the U.S Department of Health and Human Services, there are 12,800,000 Americans on welfare. Twenty one percent of the United States welfare recipients are abusing illegal drugs. Out of fifty states only a handful of them are drug testing their welfare recipients. This is a problem among the recipients of the welfare program. As a nation, citizens should not be ignoring this problem, but yet, taking action into doing what is fair to our citizens. By ignoring this issue, the government is encouraging the users of illegal drugs to continue using. The United States government should implement mandatory drug testing among all welfare recipients to avoid abuse of the system. The United States welfare program is a system that provides

The welfare recipients should be drug tested so those people paying taxes have closer on where their hard earned money is going. Mandatory drug testing should be applied to the system. All the evidence is clear that people are making the mistake of using illicit drugs, losing their jobs, not being able to pay for anything, receiving welfare benefits, and then continue to use while getting free money from their state. Not only is it unfair to the taxpayers of America, but it is unfair to the people who are not using and are receiving welfare. By executing the drug users from the program they could use the extra money that they are spending on drugs to make the government system a more beneficial program. There needs to be something that insures taxpayers’ money is being spent in a legal way. Mandatory drug testing is the perfect solution for this. Ranee, a current writer for Helium, also believes that welfare recipients should be held accountable for their actions.” I totally agree with drug testing people on government assistance. I live in a town where there are so many people that are on welfare, some honestly do need it and some that could work but “play” the system and spend our tax dollars on dope” (Welfare programs). Ranee has personal experience on this issue, as she watched her mother not only abuse drugs but the welfare system as