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RULE MAKES NO SENSE

The Florida Legislature just passed a bill requiring all welfare recipients to take periodic drug tests to receive their welfare payments.  The reasoning for this was that those on welfare receive taxpayer money and we should take every precaution to safeguard that money from possibly being used for buying drugs.  Appellate courts have already held laws of this nature unconstitutional because they single out just one group of people.

It would appear that the way to correct this problem, and the logical extension of that argument, should be that each legislator should be required to also be part of a random drug testing program.  They take a lot more taxpayer dollars per person than any welfare recipient does, and from the votes the majority made in this year's legislative session, it's a reasonable request to make!

ERIC WEST, Daytona Beach