California's High-Tax, Big-Government Comedown

IBD reports:

According to the Reason Foundation's most recent annual ranking of "Overall Highway Performance," California has the fourth-worst state highway system, which might have something to do with California employing the fourth-fewest highway personnel per 10,000 population of any state.

Police protection? Here too, California police protection employees are payroll winners and California citizens the losers.

The state pays its police protection employees more than any state — 38% more than the national average — and has 11% fewer police protection employees than the national average.

The average California fire protection employee is paid more than $115,000 a year (64% higher than the national average), while the state has the 15th-fewest fire protection employees per 10,000 of population (20% fewer than the national average).

Topping off these "achievements," California has the nation's highest poverty rate.

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