You pay multiple taxes, including on receipts, so even a business losing money must pay taxes. It truly is the socialist idiot nightmare. They have no awareness that a better business climate would help the city and boost tax revenue.
California charges $800 for the same right to try and make money. We are more screwed up than Pennsylvania. The goal of the governing officials is to be a state of just government workers and illegals then everything would be great. Great to me is moving to Nevada.