So
Ct Lawyer.
You make the perfect point
You send extra money to your municipality to specifically support things that you feel worthy of your money.
However in my Town we have Hatzolah.
Hatzolah was started specifically because of the response time of the EMS systems.
I feel that they are need. That they save lives.
My community also has a large library with books and reading material that I find approproate for my children.
I would never ever allow them into a Public Library without a really good reason and adult supervision.
However operating a quality library takes money and as such I pay membership fees and others.
In addition my local shuls have large seforim libraries, commonly know as a n “otzar seforim” which are needed for my continuing Jewish education.
TOgether these 3 things are just part of an infrastructure that I consider to be essential to raising a proper Jewish family.
I do not need nor care for the local Public Library.
Admittidley it serves a limited purpose but it’s limited purpose is demonstrably smaller then the purpose of the Jewish Libraries.
The same goes for EMS.
Now while B’H i make a nice living it is not nearly enough on it’s own to fund any of these expensive and time consuming endeavors (you would be surprised as to how much time and money it takes to fund a good library)
Thankfully my wider community also thinks of these things as necessities.
As such there is enough money contributed to fund all 3 of them .
That is our communal choice and it is the voluntary choice of the community to fund these things which to us are priorities.
However I suspect that most of the decision makers in the State and Federal government do not view these things as priorities..
As such they will raise taxes to fund what they consider to be “arts”.
In other words they legally take away money we earned to support our families and communities.
To fund what they consider “arts”.
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