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Lebanon County, PA April 24, 2012 Election
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Taxes and Fiscal Responsibility

By Joe Eisenhauer

Candidate for State Representative; Pennsylvania State House of Representatives; District 102; Republican Party

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Pennsylvania can and should provide for the general, great, and essential principles of liberty and free government in a fiscally and economically responsible fashion. Living within our means, providing only those services required for the empowerment of our citizens, and limiting the indebtedness of the Commonwealth is the only way to tame the cost of government and its rapid consumption of private wealth.

Every program and every service; every public job and every expense; everything must be on the table. I have a plan to limit the financial reach of state government through the elimination of wasteful spending, the privatization of select state operations better provided for by private industry, reformation of the public pension system, and the reining in of entitlement costs through the elimination of waste.

Some cuts may sting; all will be responsible and necessary.

Through my plan, I am committed to:

  • Modify existing economic development programs in the Commonwealth to make them revenue neutral and performance based, saving the taxpayers money and eliminating the need to borrow.
  • Explore the privatization of state-provided services such as the state liquor store system and PHEAA, and explore the consolidation of services within the departmental agencies and the legislature.
  • Responsibly reform the public employee pension system in Pennsylvania + by some estimates to be underfunded statewide by almost $6 billion + and the exploration of a transition from a defined benefit plan to a defined contribution plan for all public employees, including the legislature.
  • Enact true property tax reform for as many as our neighbors as possible.

Put simply: if we can't afford it, we can't do it. This will be the guiding fiscal principle of my representation of your interests in Harrisburg. A trimmer state government will be a less burdensome state government. A less burdensome state government allows you to keep more of your money and allows businesses to grow and hire.

I have a plan to force Harrisburg to live within its means. Together, let's make Pennsylvania a fiscally stable and affordable place to raise our families, build our wealth, and retire with dignity.

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