Bradenton state Sen. Mike Bennett has proposed requiring random drug tests of anyone getting unemployment insurance, as described here and here .

Bennett’s rationale is that “We want to make sure the people that are using it are using it for the right reasons …I guarantee people are supporting their drug habits on your unemployment.”

Of course, there are constitutional problems with random drug testing, and Bennett also expects the unemployed to pay for the privilege of being tested to save the state the cost of testing.

As a couple of bloggers have pointed out, there are certainly people in the Legislature supporting drug habits on their salary. Why aren’t we introducing random drug testing for them?

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