Locked down restaurants deserve reprieve from regulatory fees

The government can’t have it both ways.
It can’t collect fees and assessments for the privilege of operating a business at the same time it is prohibiting the business from operating.
Yet that’s what the state and counties have been doing to California restaurants, which are now seeking a refund of more than $100 million in fees for liquor licenses, health permits and tourism assessments for the nearly eight months that the restaurants were forced to stop their indoor dining se