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It’s the gas tax, stupid

President Donald Trump is asking Congress to suspend the federal gas tax until the Iran war is over.

Not hard at all. And he might have found a rare moment of bipartisan compromise in Washington.

Trump has a knack for taking “free money” off the table, politically.

Gavin Newsom: Not so much.

Newsom continues to resist calls to suspend or lower the state’s gas taxes.

These are the highest gas taxes in the country, at 61 cents per gallon. And that’s before sales tax and other fees.

California’s gas taxes are so unpopular that voters recalled a Democrat who voted to raise them in 2018.

They’re so unpopular that the attorney general at the time — a man named Xavier Becerra — had to mislead voters who wanted to vote to repeal them.

Opponents of the gas tax placed a ballot measure, Proposition 6, on the November 2018 ballot.

Becerra renamed the proposition to obscure the fact that it lowered the gas tax. He wrote a deceptive description that just........

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