Dr. Pepper – kol hakavod to your brother and sister in law. They are doing it the proper way and sacrificing for Torah. Do they have school aged children? Do they know how they are going to deal with that?
Speaktruth, we pay taxes for many things we don’t use. We also get lots of benefits for things we do use, disproportionately to what we pay. That’s the way a tax system works. Social security is a different ball of wax.
“besides, if you ask me, i would much rather give “charity” to kollel families than others. ”
I hate when people say this. Others take advatage of the system, so we should? When others lie, cheat and steal, shouldn’t we also? Is that the type of Judaism we are running nowadays? No wonder Moshiach isn’t here.
So you want someone to be the only fool and stop taking money from the goverment to reduce goverment spending?
Actually, the fools are those who stay on services. They are not helping out the overall country and just assisting in putting us further behind. Whatever happened to “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” Learning Torah is a wonderful thing. It is not exclusive to Kollel society. Sacrificing for Torah is a wonderful thing. Getting government services is not really sacrificing for Torah.