>Is it the fault of the lawmakers in my customer's state? Unquestionably, yes. They know exactly what kind of business they were looking to restrict with those

>Is it the fault of the lawmakers in my customer's state? Unquestionably, yes. They know exactly what kind of business they were looking to restrict with those laws, and in your analogy they stuck all the fallout from that on you. (That's not to say one shouldn't be civic-minded, but for the record I tend to avoid analogies when talking about this because they more often seem to confuse the issue than actually explain what is happening)