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The tax proposal, said campaign strategist Dan Newman, “opens up a can of worms sliding down a slippery slope by taxing cars, houses, wheelbarrows and everything else.”

Among them is avoiding seaweed soup for lunch, as its slippery strands are believed to make students "slip" in the high-stakes test -- a superstition that has long shaped test-day menus.

To get in, they had to navigate more than 60 feet of stairs that had been covered in slippery sludge.

California Republicans have called the effort misguided, arguing that the retaliatory response creates a slippery slope that would erode the independent redistricting process California voters have chosen twice at the ballot box.

Members of Gen Alpha, it added, might be "smirking at the thought of adults once again struggling to make sense of your notoriously slippery slang."