content: Eventually, the state will not be able to raise taxes to keep from going bankrupt.  Give it time, CHP just started having officers retire making more than $100,000 per year this year or last...that's the start of the pension liability bubbles popping.  Education is already spending more than half their budget on salaries, benefits and pensions.  This is important as CHP got the first gibs from Gray Davis, followed by teachers and then the rest of the public employee unions in the years since.