Jon Slavet

It's like a tariff.

And so in California, our average gas, if you're at 91 unleaded, if you drive a gas-powered car, you're paying...

$5 if you're lucky, maybe $5.50, $6 in a ritzy town.

If you're in 89 unleaded, you're paying $4, $4.50.

My mom in Boston pays $2.89 in north of Boston.

And so that dollar and a half extra is pure tax.

And we also have a custom fuel mix, two seasons of a custom fuel mix that our refiners have to refine, which is state imposed.

No other state does this, Chuck.

None of the other 49 states have a custom fuel mix.

So all of these things are taxes and they get imposed on our citizens.

And we can end those.

There are many examples.

We've also, Chuck...

We've added 50,000 full-time workers in California over the Newsom administration.

So we started at about 210,000.

Now we're at about 260,000 full-time workers in California, not including contractors.

We're spending huge amounts of money on people in the keyboard economy when we have technology that can help do the work.

I'm not saying I would mass fire people.

But when people come to the point where they're going to leave the workforce or not performing, we shouldn't backfill that role.

We should actually start reducing the size of the state government.