Mr Daniels, in Indiana, has proposed a similar measure, although he opposes a move by the state legislature to allow employees in any unionised workplace to opt out of paying union dues, as Mr Walker also proposes, for fear it will spark a knock-down drag-out fight with the labour movement.
Only the knock-down-drag-out fight that ends the second act fails to register, in part because Rob Howell's distractingly spectacular deco-modern set isn't cluttered enough to let Elyot and Amanda whip up a sufficiently chaotic mess.