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Would it be a good idea to &#8230;&#8230; gather people&#8217;s money-saving suggestions for state government and then put the best ones into practice?Ostensibly, state Sen. Scott Wagner, a York County Republican, aims to do exactly that using a website, <a href="http://www.senatorscottwagner.com/savepa/" target="_blank">SenatorScottWagner.com/SavePa</a>, promoted since early January as a clearinghouse to help lower the commonwealth&#8217;s spending.It remains to be seen if the site yields any practical solutions or instead serves as a partisan tool to skewer Gov. Tom Wolf&#8217;s budget priorities.&#8220;We&#8217;re calling on the governor to first address the spending side of the equation before reaching into the wallet of taxpayers,&#8221; Wagner&#8217;s website states. &#8220;That&#8217;s where we would like your input. &#8230;&#8221;The senator &#8220;will review all suggestions and will highlight them on this site,&#8221; his message states.To get the ball rolling, Wagner offered four potential money-conserving actions including &#8220;eliminating prevailing wage mandates.&#8221;As of Friday, no submitted ideas from the public were evident on the site. A corresponding Twitter hashtag, <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/savepa" target="_blank">#SavePA</a>, had drawn comments, several of them sarcastic and few providing reasoned strategies in 140 characters or less.Of course, identifying a great idea will be fruitless unless it also can be implemented, no small task these days in the Hatfield-McCoy climate of Harrisburg.Simultaneous to Wagner&#8217;s effort, the Governor&#8217;s Office of Transformation, Innovation, Modernization and Efficiency, known by the shorthand GO-TIME, continues to look for ways to streamline government operations. Wolf expects the office to identify during this fiscal year some $150 million in efficiencies and savings.Do you have a whiz-bang notion to share that might shave Pennsylvania&#8217;s expenses? Could Luzerne County&#8217;s government benefit from similar, highly publicized efforts to solicit input from its employees and residents?Or do you consider &#8220;government savings&#8221; an oxymoron?Give us your feedback by sending a letter to the editor or posting comments to this editorial at timesleader.com.Likewise, tell us your ideas for improving the community and making area residents&#8217; lives better. Maybe we&#8217;ll spotlight your suggestion in a future editorial and ask readers, &#8220;Would it be a good idea to &#8230;&#8221;

Our Opinion: Let’s hear money-saving ideas for state government