This Congresswoman Wants to Drug-Test Rich People Who Receive Federal Tax Breaks

[midnight]

“The benefits we give to poor people are so limited compared to what we give to the top one percent,” Moore said. “It’s a drop in the bucket.”

Moore cited House Speaker Paul Ryan’s poverty plan, which he unveiled last week at a drug and alcohol treatment center in Washington, D.C.

“When he stood in front of a drug treatment center and rolled out his anti-poverty initiative, pushing this narrative that poor people are drug addicts, that was the last straw,” Moore told the Guardian.

The congresswoman expanded upon her position Thursday, writing in a lengthy statement on her website, “as I’ve said time and time again, the notion that those battling poverty are somehow more susceptible to substance abuse is as absurd as it is offensive.”


http://www.alternet.org/economy/congresswoman-gwen-moore-wants-drug-test-top-1-percent-over-tax-breaks

[Judi Lynn]

1. Outstanding move. n/t

[midnight]

2. “Republicans across the country continue to implement discriminatory policies that criminalize the

less fortunate and perpetuate false narratives about the most vulnerable among us,”

She gets it...