Unfortunately there are also fireman, police, city managers, political assistants, etc. who make $150,000 to $450,000 a year, and will retire with 90% of that s

Unfortunately there are also fireman, police, city managers, political assistants, etc. who make $150,000 to $450,000 a year, and will retire with 90% of that salary per year for LIFE (I kid you not). That's where all CA taxes (corporate, property, sales, you name it) will end up going. The reason why is that the unions control lots of voters, and politicians that wanted to get elected became beholden to those unions and gave them contracts 20 years ago that the state can't afford.