Corrupt Governments Blaming Businesses for THEIR Failures!

In the old Soviet Union, the usual MO was to blame the farmers for not doing enough to meet often arbitrary government standards, and *punish* them accordingly for conditions out of their control. In the US, this is often called an "unfunded mandate", which means they impose a rule or standard without providing the means to achieve it--do it because I said so.

As Ayn Rand wrote back in 1957: "If, in order to produce, you must obtain permission from those who produce *nothing* ... you may know that your society is doomed."