That's the basic argument against all kinds of welfare gatekeeping, it costs more than it saves. People who insist on requiring drug tests to receive unemployme

That's the basic argument against all kinds of welfare gatekeeping, it costs more than it saves. People who insist on requiring drug tests to receive unemployment benefits, requiring seven life histories to receive SNAP, etc, often try and justify it as lowered spending, but it is mostly about making sure that Bad People don't get anything. https://thinkprogress.org/what-7-states-discovered-after-spending-more-than-1-million-drug-testing-welfare-recipients-c346e0b4305d/ https://thinkprogress.org/what-7-states-discovered-after-spe...