Posted on 06/17/2016 7:19:35 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
A Congresswoman who is “sick and tired” of drug testing welfare recipients has introduced a bill in Congress that would subject the rich to many of those same requirements.
Rep. Gwen Moore, D-Wis., unveiled Thursday the Top 1% Accountability Act, which would require those claiming itemized deductions of more than $150,000 on their tax returns to submit to drug tests or file for less generous tax deductions.
The proposal is a shot across the bow at Republican governors in states, including Moore’s home state of Wisconsin, that require the recipients of certain welfare benefit programs to be drug tested in order to remain eligible to receive assistance.
“As a strong advocate for social programs aimed at combating poverty, it deeply offends me that there is such a deep stigma surrounding those who depend on government benefits, especially as a former welfare recipient,” Moore said in a statement. “Sadly, Republicans across the country continue to implement discriminatory policies that criminalize the less fortunate and perpetuate false narratives about the most vulnerable among us.”
Moore, who represents Milwaukee, used welfare benefits to work herself out of poverty when she was younger and has said that her goal is to ensure others have the same opportunity.
“I’m grateful for the taxpayers for [welfare], and I have given back tenfold,” Moore told the Guardian. “I think everyone should have that same opportunity.”
15 states, including Florida, Michigan and North Carolina, have passed bills that require welfare recipients to submit to drug testing in an attempt to save money on those programs.
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Florida got a real gem in Gwen Moore. ;-)
She even nastier than I imagined.I’d hate to be riding my horse any find her standing on the trail.
No she's not or she would not be proposing this legislation.
No, you CAN’T keep it ... we have only Labs in this house
any=and
Socialists think ALL money belongs to the government...
Sorry Gwen, they are filing to get their money back, not my money.
Wisconsin.
Florida has a couple of gems, Wasserman-Schultz and Grayson
Drug test HER. HER and her like..... all the congress critters.
aw geez.. Thanks.. my mistake,, she kinda looks like a cheesehead. :-}
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So an obese black woman wants tax PAYERS tested for drugs?
Maybe she should be tested. Rumor has it she might do a bit of something to control her weight.
She’s about an ugly son of a bitch.
It seems like every state in required to have a majority idiot district, places that elect Sheila Jackson-Lee, Hank (capsize Guam) Johnson, Bobby Scott, Maxine Waters, Alan Grayson, Jerrold Nadler, Luis Gutierrez, Raul Grijalva, etc.
The last two are the best representatives Mexico has in the US House.
bring it on.
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