[suthener]

I’ve had my eye on a really nice truck lately. Unfortunately, they must be banned because I don’t have $65,000 to pay for one.

[Simon Green]

I’ve had my eye on a really nice truck lately. Unfortunately, they must be banned because I don’t have $65,000 to pay for one.

For your analogy to be faithful, there would have to be legislation forcing the price of your "really nice truck" to a million dollars.

Perhaps this will help:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_facto