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California Punishes Voters After Historic Election, Slaps on Massive New Gas Tax – RedState

Is California’s latest bureaucratic insanity a direct punishment to its residents over the elections last Tuesday? Although the Golden State stayed reliably blue in the presidential contest, we did vote out soft-on-crime, Soros-backed district attorneys like the infamous George Gascón and approved crime measure Prop 36.





Their latest move sure feels like naked retribution: California’s Air Resources Board (CARB voted Friday night to change fuel standards. Translation: they want to add 65 cents a gallon to the already highest fuel prices in the nation. This comes as Gov. Gavin Newsom preens on the national stage and vows to defy Trump despite the fact that the president-elect just scored a massive electoral win and what can only be called a mandate for his vision.

There’s a phrase out there, and it’s that they “doubled down on stupid”:

On Friday, the…

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