California has a bad habit of not adjusting for CoL, which makes zero sense in the context of a state with such wide CoL disparities (they do the same thing wit

California has a bad habit of not adjusting for CoL, which makes zero sense in the context of a state with such wide CoL disparities (they do the same thing with govt employee salaries, which are constant across the state). Someone making $100k in LA/SF is in a very different boat than someone making $100k in Sacramento, Fresno, or Ukiah. Pretending that these people are all equally well-off is imbecilic. I'm not sure how pestilence is relevant here, but I would agree that it would be a bad alternative. I don't think even CA's legislators are stupid enough to vote in favor of pestilence, however.