Speaker Quinn is correct. New York City’s sales and income taxes pay a substantial part of the infrastructure and educational expenses of the rest of the state. You are correct, however, about the frum community’s “let’s get ours” attitude. How often do we see the folks who complain about high taxes in forums such as this suggesting a publicly-supported frum program that could be reduced or eliminated. We are just as hypocritical as everyone else.

And the frum community, which shares the “let’s get our’s” attitude towards public finance (as opposed to the “tea party” style – leave us alone approach), is just as guilty as the rest of the city. Just note the frequent articles on YWN on how the frum community glories in chasing patronage, even if the price is to support the radical un-Torah agenda of the secular Jews who run downstate New York politics.