Young Conservatives of Pennsylvania today urges House Speaker John Perzel to stop milking taxpayers
Young Conservatives of Pennsylvania today urges House Speaker John Perzel to stop milking taxpayers for all their worth thanks to a massive unconstitutional 34% pay hike and back the newly unveiled pay raise repeal bills. With Perzel's support, floor debate on the bipartisan Creighton-Vitali and Clymer-Gabig repeal bills would certainly move forward. YCOP also urges Perzel to assign the repeal bills to the House State Government Committee, chaired by Rep. Paul Clymer, rather than another committee where pay-hikers could easily kill the legislation.
Last weekend Perzel said legislators "did what was right," by voting themselves a quick late night pay hike making Pennsylvania lawmakers - or as Perzel refers to them, "volunteers" - the nation's second highest paid. Ironically, Perzel's audience, GOP State Committee, urged "action" on the controversial issue. Perzel also uttered: ''The people in Lancaster County who milk cows are making $50,000 to $55,000 [a year]. ... You are paying a guy who milks cows $55,000, and [they're] saying it's too much to pay a member of the General Assembly half of what a member of Congress makes?''
Unfortunately, Perzel got his milking facts wrong. An ABC-27 "Reality Check" citing the PA Farm Bureau found that the average salary for a farmer milking cows is $20,500 not $50,000, both light-years away from Perzel's new whopping salary of $145,000. Just ten years ago Perzel had assured taxpayers that "we'll never have to worry about [another legislative pay hike] again," if a 1995 automatic cost of living adjustment was enacted.
"What does Lancaster farmers milking cows have to do with sidestepping the Constitution to massively hike your salary 34% to $145,000?" asked State Chairman Chris Lilik. "Since a vast majority of Pennsylvanians support rescinding the unconstitutional pay raise, Speaker Perzel has a golden opportunity to lead the path toward repeal, unite taxpayers against government corruption, and set things right. Pennsylvanians need the Speaker to take a strong stand against the unconstitutional pay hike, and allow the public floor debate which taxpayers were wrongfully denied in the wee hours of July 7th."
For more information on YCOP's InformedPA.com campaign please visit http://www.informedpa.com/.
Source: http://www.grassrootspa.com
Vice Chairman of Voter Education
http://www.ycop.org
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http://www.InformedPA.com
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