Have you ever been victim of a stereotype? Maybe it was in a joke? Well, right now in America, there is a false stereotype so deeply embedded in our culture that its believers want to make a law out of it. Have you ever heard that welfare recipients are all drug dealers and/ or drug users? Well, this is actually false. This essay will demonstrate why the passage of such bills is an unconstitutional invasion of individual’s privacy and would yield many negative consequences to our country.
The governor of Florida, who wants to implement this policy used to work for the company who the bill proposes will conduct all of the drug tests. This is insider trading which is illegal in politics. Singling out of the poor with this requirement is unconstitutional and violates the Fourth Amendment’s protection against unreasonable searches. Groups with the least amount of resources to protect themselves and impact law such as the poor are being taken advantage of. Additionally, the bill and similar bills proposed by other states, all fail to provide for certain exemptions, including exemptions for parents with physical or mental disabilities. The bill also asks the state to figure out how applicants can make officials aware they take medically prescribed drugs and could affect their test.
The trouble of implementing and administering this law would be a huge burden and it would not be worth it. Only groups, people, and corporations with resources (i.e. money) are able to lobby law makers to get laws passed in their favor. Many political analysts have argued that these groups are pressing for passage of these laws just to take the attention off of themselves. They are calling it political fodder. We give big corporations billions of tax cuts for absolutely no reason and these corporations send lobbyists out to propose controversial bills like this so attention is turned away from them in the media. It will make our government perform less efficiently than it already does and propose no real solutions to the issue of drug use in America.
The governor of Florida, who wants to implement this policy used to work for the company who the bill proposes will conduct all of the drug tests. This is insider trading which is illegal in politics. Singling out of the poor with this requirement is unconstitutional and violates the Fourth Amendment’s protection against unreasonable searches. Groups with the least amount of resources to protect themselves and impact law such as the poor are being taken advantage of. Additionally, the bill and similar bills proposed by other states, all fail to provide for certain exemptions, including exemptions for parents with physical or mental disabilities. The bill also asks the state to figure out how applicants can make officials aware they take medically prescribed drugs and could affect their test.
The trouble of implementing and administering this law would be a huge burden and it would not be worth it. Only groups, people, and corporations with resources (i.e. money) are able to lobby law makers to get laws passed in their favor. Many political analysts have argued that these groups are pressing for passage of these laws just to take the attention off of themselves. They are calling it political fodder. We give big corporations billions of tax cuts for absolutely no reason and these corporations send lobbyists out to propose controversial bills like this so attention is turned away from them in the media. It will make our government perform less efficiently than it already does and propose no real solutions to the issue of drug use in America.
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