On the tail of a recent study by Bloomberg confirming public sector employee compensations are overly generous, OpenMarket.org lays out the history of California governance starting with Governor Brown's first term that has lead to this drastic increase, which is now threatening to bankrupt many municipalities and driving the state further into the fiscal red.

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Katherine Timpf of Washington Times explains how unions have taken over by pressuring the now Democratic supermajority in California into considering proposals to eliminate private insurance companies, raise taxes on everything from oil to luxury cars and remove barriers to higher property taxes, plus the $68 billion bullet train and increase public pension payouts to consume almost 20% of local budgets.

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The Market Oracle's opinion piece discussing the continued delusions of Calpers that the State can sustainably continue to pay their irrational exuberant pensions at the expense of taxpayers.

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Steve Williams of the High Desert Daily Press details the importance of the passage of Proposition 32 in order to to break the stranglehold unions have had on state politics.

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Los Angeles Times reports the plan Gov. Jerry Brown and fellow Democrats are championing to contain government worker pensions in California could leave state taxpayers awash in debt to public employees. Leading analyst are saying far more aggressive action — including reduction of benefits for hundreds of thousands of current employees left untouched by Brown's proposal — will be needed to get runaway retirement costs under control.

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