Doesn't need the money?  DOESN'T NEED THE MONEY!!!

Don't you think that the public workers unions alone could figure out a way to use the few extra mill squeezed out of online shoppers?  

What about the children?  And the elderly?  Who's going to make sure that new businesses have enough toilets available, that Michigan consumers are using enough green electricity, or that my devious neighbor hasn't piled some carrots under his apple tree?  What are we going to do about toilets that flush too much water and about cider mills that sell unauthorized firewood?  Who's going to save us that 20 minutes of travel time between train stations in Dearborn and Chicago if not for government visionaries?  

Why, there are millions of regulations already that aren't being properly enforced while there are millions more that need to be enacted to keep us potential criminals on the straight and narrow.  Besides, who among us thinks that Detroit city officials or Robert Ficano couldn't find a way to spend a little extra cash--there is machinery to grease!

Our ever protective and benevolent government needs all the cash it can get, and if a few employers have to cut back on staff, or if a few consumers have to shell out a few extra non-productive dollars on bureaucracy, so be it!

Long live the nannystate!  

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