If this policy hurts anybody, it's bad policy. If it means that one hot family on the edge of poverty cannot come onto the island for a bit of refreshment, then it means that, despite all glib answers to the contrary, we have failed in the mission of providing for our neediest.

On the one hand, you have people saying it won't change a thing because OF COURSE Detroit's desperately poor people will be able to pay it, or walk or bike [[despite being perhaps crippled) or take the bus [[which doesn't exist). On the other hand, you have people delighted that the island will have fewer poor people on it. Sorry, y'all can't all be right.