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**meridiasas** · 04-20-2011, 10:07 PM

After causing thousands in damage via robbery, buglary, and the 65k a year it costs to keep them locked up.

Or you give them welfare.

See.....

As much as I dislike seeing tax dollars coddling drug addicts who made their own self destructive decisions, obviously I'm not serious about letting them all drop dead. It's too expensive.

Still, if we're going to use tax money to rehabilitate drug addicts, do something that works. The government can't be every waste-of-life's parent. We certainly shouldn't be handing out cash to people who are potentially using it for drugs, any more than we should be handing out Access cards that people can use for candy and Mountain Dew.

Is one of the honest arguments against this bill to keep giving them cash so they don't turn to crime to support a drug habit?

04-20-2011, 10:07 PM	#20
meridiasas Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 461 Senior Member	After causing thousands in damage via robbery, buglary, and the 65k a year it costs to keep them locked up. Or you give them welfare. See..... As much as I dislike seeing tax dollars coddling drug addicts who made their own self destructive decisions, obviously I'm not serious about letting them all drop dead. It's too expensive. Still, if we're going to use tax money to rehabilitate drug addicts, do something that works. The government can't be every waste-of-life's parent. We certainly shouldn't be handing out cash to people who are potentially using it for drugs, any more than we should be handing out Access cards that people can use for candy and Mountain Dew. Is one of the honest arguments against this bill to keep giving them cash so they don't turn to crime to support a drug habit?
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