
Police officers and firefighters are widely regarded as underpaid. So how come police captains in Vallejo, California can make $300,000 a year, then retire at 50 on 90% salary, adjusted for inflation, for life and the life of their spouse?
City Journal's Steve Malanga details the history of how public-sector state employee unions bought California's state government lock, stock and barrel. Their bought-and-paid-for politicians repaid the favors by bankrupting the state, looting the budget to fund ever more lavish salary and pension plans for public sector union employees.
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Refs: wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Jarvis#Alleged_impact_on_rent_control_laws). Sorry--I don't want to spend the time to dig more up. More than one book has been written on the subject, but it would take a days work to sort it all out and put the pieces together.