Bill Would Require CEOs Get Drug Tested If Company Gets Loans, Grants Or Tax Credits From State

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Bipartisan group of representatives would mandate substance abuse testing for 'corporate welfare' recipients

Michigan Capitol Confidential
By Tom Gantert
March 29, 2012

If the likes of Ford Chief Executive Officer Alan Mulally and Hollywood Film Producer James Cameron want tax breaks for their projects in Michigan, they may have to take a drug test to get the money if a bipartisan group of State Representatives have their way.

Rep. Tom McMillin, R-Rochester Hills, introduced House Bill 5527 on Wednesday that calls for top executives in companies to be drug tested if they receive certain tax breaks from the state. The bill currently has four co-sponsors: Pat Somerville, R-New Boston, Judson Gilbert, R-Algonac, Mike Shirkey, R-Clark Lake, and Jim Ananich, D-Flint.

Rep. McMillin is against testing welfare recipients for drugs, but said if that plan goes through, then executives getting “corporate welfare” also should be drug tested.

The bill is tied to the Michigan Strategic Fund, which oversees the state’s film subsidies as well as the tax credits given to some of the state’s biggest corporations.

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[Autumn]

1. I like this

rec.

[niyad]

2. works for me

[GopperStopper2680]

3. Excellent!

Sounds like a plan to me! And it's Bipartisan! There may, just MAY be hope yet for this country!

[RKP5637]

4. K&R !!! n/t

[SDjack]

5. Also, test the politicians handing out the welfare. n/t

[HiPointDem]

6. I'd vote for that. Hope I get the chance to someday.

[TheKentuckian]

7. I want a bill that prohibits collection of our bodily fluids being asked of workers.

Fuck the tit for tat, this culture is toxic.

[Morning Dew]

13. I totally agree.

Except for some safety sensitive jobs, most employees shouldn't have to be drug tested.

Same for employers doing credit checks - in most cases, it shouldn't be allowed.

[varelse]

8. A Republican introduced this?

I'm impressed

[cstanleytech]

20. Dont be because I am willing to bet they are probably working in secret to kill it and its not

intended to become law at all or atleast if it does it will be written in such a way so as to be easy to be thrown out or it will have as many loopholes as the tax code does for the 1%.

[Politicalboi]

9. Better be eye witnessed

These guys will cheat. So make it random too. It was "legal" for me, it must be "legal" for them.

[pipoman]

10. One step closer to testing of elected officials

See how fast the 'war on drugs' is over..

[CrispyQ]

11. Not just the CEO, the entire fucking BOD & all C-level officers!

Fuckin' A!

kick

[saras]

12. Why? BFD. The important drugs for THEM are all legal

If Viagra, alcohol,and Adderall were legally PROHIBITED to these people, the tests might make some sense.

[mopinko]

16. you don't think there is any coke at the top?

think again.

[saras]

22. yer probably right - I always underestimate stupid

I thought coke was over when David Bowie said that he didn't remember 1975 but he made a good album that year. I thought the eighties were the decade of designer psychedelics - sweet stuff - whereas everyone else thought it was the decade to jump on the cocaine bandwagon a decade late.

The problem with coke is that it seems to make everyone's asshole swell to about six feet in diameter and migrate to the face. As far as I'm concerned, David Crosby lighting his freebase pipe, on a commercial airliner, in his seat, with a propane torch, says it all. I mean, even before 9/11, that took cojones so big his road crew must have moved them for him. And an equal sized dose of stupid.

It figures that GWB would be into cocaine a decade too late, at least.

[got root]

14. waaaaaaaaay past time for that, and it should be ALL the CxOs

good for the goose and all.

[BlueIris]

15. Nice.

Yay!

[fascisthunter]

17. I seriously do not think in this climate of corruption this will do anything

you really think billionaires won't know how to skirt such testing?

[Initech]

18. See - I tell you - the win is to fight back.

[SHRED]

19. nope

Drug testing is evil. We need less not more.

[SATIRical]

21. Sounds good to me.

Hopefully it passes. Frankly, I don't think drug tests are a big deal after taking them for 20 years.