follick2, so you will increase dependency of your community on welfare payments and hope that this will last?
Not exactly a direct comparison, but I see a lesson here: when a new PM Menachem Begin offered full subsidy to yeshivot, R Schach advised against taking it. His reasoning: yeshivot will come to fully rely on government funds, and when a new government comes and reduces subsidies, they will go bankrupt.
Similarly here, relying on government to support you because you are poor will keep you poor for the time being. People who could have paid your Rebbe directly will have less omney too. Then, when someone else’s money will run out, you will not be able to support yourself.