Governor Tom Wolf introduced his state budget proposal yesterday. It includes no tax increase…but it does contain an increase in spending of two-billion dollars over last year. All three Republican state representatives who serve Beaver County spoke with Frank Sparks during Wednesday’s edition of Teleforum. Here’s what they had to say:

State Rep. Aaron Bernstine says the numbers just don’t add up…

When asked if there was anything that he liked in the governor’s budget proposal, Bernstine re-iterated his dislike of spending in the budget…

State Representative Jim Marshall says he doesn’t like the idea of increasing spending in these days of a robust economy…

Marshall says he’s not against everything that the governor proposed yesterday, although he declined to get specific…

State Rep. Josh Kail says he agrees with his Republican colleagues that there’s too much spending in the budget…

Kail says he’s hopeful that they’ll be able to reach a compromise…

…and Democratic State Rep. Rob Matzie calls the governor’s state budget a ‘starting point’, as we hear in this report from Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano: