I wonder where this will end?

Philip Greenspun discovers that the California.Gov has a web page where you can query by agency to see the top paid employees. The Highway Patrol has a Sergeant making $304,477. He turns over some of these rocks, ponders the way the state pensions are funded, and muses:

The federal government’s unbridled spending isn’t too surprising because the feds have printing presses for creating additional dollars. States that pay policemen $600,000 per year (including pension commitments) strike me as odd. Where did they think the money would come from?

Places with the most advanced "Progressive" governments (California, New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts) seem to have the most expensive and worst performing government agencies. Imagine that.