People are already leaving California. The more they hike the taxes, the more free people will decide to leave. Calpers will be very surprised that Californians can say no. Republicans should be out there explaining what is going to happen and winning legislative seats.
the people leaving Cal are the retirees getting their big payoffs but not having to live in the mess they themselves help create....
And some of these people are state retirees taking their checks to Nevada and Washington and paying no income tax.
By comparison a 20 year FBI agent would make 34% of the average of his high 3, without the ability to spike his overtime.
New Jersey is in the same quandary, and Christie has done well at the polls by raising the alarm about it. Whatever his faults, Chris Christie has all the right enemies. When the Asbury Park Press released the salary figures of every public school teacher in NJ, it fundamentally changed the game; the nonsense about “underpaid teachers” (who work less than half the year) was put to rest forever. They were clearly the enemy of taxpayers, not for drawing paychecks but for growing them (and their pensions/benefits) while increasing numbers of NJ homes went into foreclosure.