Welfare, drug-tested: getting high vs. benefits.

• Author: Krayewski, Ed
• Position: Citings - Brief article

FACING A tight race for reelection in the November midterm election, Gov. Scott Walker (R-Wis.) released a 62-page plan in September called "Greater Prosperity for All." The plan, longer on rhetoric than details, includes an income tax cut of an unspecified amount, as well as a reduction in the amount of time that able-bodied people can receive food stamps and unemployment benefits. It also proposes drug testing welfare recipients.

Florida passed a similar requirement in 2011.That law was struck down earlier this year by U.S. District Court Judge Mary Scriven, who declared she could find "no set of circumstances under which the warrantless, suspicionless drug testing at issue in this case could be constitutionally...