Reply To: What's going on in Emmanuel?

Taxes are because the government needs funding, but citizens don’t have a say to where it goes. In America, taxes still go to the public school system and yeshivos are privately funded. American citizens can’t tell America what to do with their tax money, and demand that they support the yeshiva system also. The same thing with Eretz Yisro’el. A government needs funding to run, and they use that to support a public school system which they control. The fact that they use that money to support Yeshivos and Beis Ya’akov is a tremendous chesed that no other country does with the frum’s taxes. But just because chareidim are required to pay taxes does not give them the right to demand where it goes. If the charedim want a school that is completely free from medinah interference then the charedim should pay for their own private schools… and they still have to pay taxes!