During the Harrisburg Artsfest, our Kara Jeffers hit the streets to ask Pennsylvanian’s where the state government should spend money.

“The medical system is scary here,” shared Alice Mauck.

“One thing is I want a more aggressive climate change sort of environmental aspect to it,” said Ronald Chadwell. "because really, if you think about it, if that's not addressed, nothing else really matter."

“You better take care of veterans and you better keep the illegals out of the state money,” said Michael Townsend.

Looking closer at health care, Mauck shared that her family recently moved from Massachusetts and have seen noticeable differences in the quality and access of care.

“We live in a more rural part of Pennsylvania and we just don't have good access to really good doctors or medical care,” said Mauck. "So I would say that's something Pennsylvania should really focus on.”

Other issues that came up were the was in Palestine,

“Our tax dollars are going to bombing children in Gaza, particularly in Rafah right now,” said Brendan Foster, press officer for the Harrisburg Palestine Coalition.

Concerns with the roads,

“You got to fix state roads. You can't even-” Townsend pointed at the camera as he spoke, “PennDOT, you can't even build a truck lane that goes through Carlisle? Shame on you.”

And concern about taxes.

“Pennsylvania is a big state and the majority of the tax money comes in in the cities. And I think they get the majority of the funding as well,” said Todd Mauck.

“Just too many taxes,” said Hector. He identified as a Democrat who likes most of the parties stances, but said not enough of the taxes paid gets back in the hands of people. "I pay for my nursing taxes, my nursing license taxes, my car tax- registration, inspection. I pay city taxes, state taxes, federal taxes. Local property taxes."

One thing that every person commented on was education.

“One thing I want to see in the Pennsylvania state budget is more money for teachers, for either public school or charter school,” said Matthew, who only commented on teacher pay before handing back the microphone. “Just, teachers need to be paid what they're worth.”

“[More money] for the public school system, just because for how advanced our country is— we're so far behind in education,” said Todd Mauck.

“Very simple. You add up the number of students there are. You add up the money available and you make sure each school district gets the same amount of money per student,” said Chadwell.

The state legislature has education pinpointed as their most heated discussion point— all elected officials agreeing the system needs change, but not agreeing on how to make the change happen.