Have you noticed how California cities and counties are incrementally costing you more in higher taxes, fees, and bonds, while providing fewer or slower services?

The dirty little secret of California local governments is how their budgets are being eaten up by pension liabilities created by police unions, firefighter unions, and other government unions.

And they’re deceptively passing off the costs to you — telling voters they can’t have a library, or sewer lines, or a functional police or fire department without “increases.” And they do this with without disclosing to voters that these “higher costs” are all due to overly-generous and ever-growing pension contracts with local government unions.

And meanwhile, your local government tax bill keeps going up, and local government services keep decreasing. Does this concern you enough stop “feeding the beast” however you can?

Read these eye-opening California Policy Center articles to understand. Then learn how to resign your union but keep your job and money:

Is California doomed to repeat pension history? (4/30/25)
Pension costs are still eating government budgets (12/1/22)
Are government pension funds in crisis again? (10/7/22)
Why are we not talking about California’s pension problems? (5/14/21)
California is not creating jobs fast enough to support tax increases for pensions (8/27/18)
How to restore financial sustainability to public pensions (2/14/18)
Government cut services, staff to afford pension costs (6/27/17)
“Unsustainable” pension costs are the driving force behind local tax increases (10/17/16)
Average Costa Mesa firefighter makes nearly $250,000 per year. Why? Pensions. (9/20/16)
The pension monster and how much it’s costing you to keep it fed (8/1/16)

The American public at large, and unionized workers in particular, want a free choice when it comes to affiliating with a union. Around eight in 10 Americans consistently express agreement with the Right to Work principle, and polls of unionized workers show similar sentiment. The truth is, American workers by and large want to make a living free from coercive union power: Most say that they have “no interest at all” in joining a labor union. American workers thrive on freedom, and policymakers who claim to care about them should be prepared to defend workers’ freedoms.
Mark Mix, National Right to Work Committee, August 31, 2025

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