Actually, the governor of Kentucky was talking about this in an interview and it's actually worse than that. A better analogy is to say that it's like having peeing and non-peeing sections of a swimming pool, and every time someone pees in the peeing section, people in the non-peeing section have to give them a dollar.
He was talking specifically about how the businesses in "your" community are doing the right thing and paying the price, and you're returning the favor by driving across the border and patronizing their competition.
