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California Highway Patrol division chief Jeff Talbott retired last year as the best-paid officer in the 12 most-populous U.S. states, collecting $483,581 in salary, pension and other compensation... Union-negotiated benefits, coupled with overtime that can exceed regular pay and lax enforcement of limits on accumulating unused vacation, allow some troopers to double their annual earnings and retire as young as age 50.

California’s high compensation levels relative to other states are the fault of public officials who approved pay and benefit changes without adequately considering their long-term costs, said David Crane, a public policy lecturer at Stanford University and a Democrat who was an economic adviser to Schwarzenegger.
Stimulating the unionized state level cronies only emboldens their rapacious looting (along with their bought and paid for fellow rapists in the State Legislatures). States that go on such orgiastic gang raping of the actual private sector should be forced to deal with the consequences of their crackwhore binge spending and unionized crony looting.