Reply To: Should the Township of Lakewood be renamed the Shtetl of Lakewood?

I was addressing your novel idea that Lakewood become an independent country. I was using those parameters you set. In such a scenario, there’d be immediate savings from those budgetary expenses I identified.

I am most certainly suggesting that Orthodox Jews/Frum Jews utilize welfare and other social benefits below the average, per capita, national utilization of those entitlement benefits. And eliminating them, and reducing taxes correspondingly, would result in a net savings for us.

Lakewood’s non-Jewish population (which represents a strong percent of the local demographics) is largely black and Hispanic, who utilize entitlement benefits far above the national average and above the local Jewish average. That’s where and why those figures are raised to the levels you cited.