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Mammale, in the thread about East Ramapo, you did not think Music , Arts and sports were important and didnt want to pay for it and said if the parents wanted those things they should have a bake sale.
Now when it comes to your belifes you are asking those who do not think they are important to pay for it. There are lots of people who think kosher is either nonsense or who dont care, but dont want to pay for it either.
In the Kiryat Joel School district the real issue was not that they wanted their own school district, but that they wanted their own school district and because the tax base wasnt big enough the state would have to subsidize it making people who abhor their choices pay for it.
Its the same in lakewood, There isnt a big enough tax base in lakewood to pay for all these services and they need the entire state to chip in and subsidize it. And they are asking the state right now to pay and the taxpayers in other parts of the state dont want to pay.