Comment by AnthonyMouse

11 hours ago

> Depending where that is one could read it as "fuck you, you haven't bribed us enough".

This is often fully formalized, i.e. you're not bribing a specific government official, instead you're paying a huge certification fee hundreds of times because it's a source of revenue generation for the government and whoever passed the bill gave zero fucks that it's a heavily regressive tax on new and small businesses.