As far as the financial issues, would it help for you to just conceive them as liberals?
Liberal ideology is that it is appropriate to use electoral power to take money from people who have it and distribute it to yourself. This is the system used in every modern liberal democracy, and espoused by legendary liberals such as our President.
That is precisely what the chareidim do. They have electoral power, and they use it to force other Israelis to give them money. Money which they think they are morally entitled to by due of learning, which is more than can be said for liberals in other countries.
Now, I am not a liberal, so I don’t approve of such antics, and I equate it with the behavior of liberals in the US and elsewhere which I heartily condemn. But most of their critics in the jewish community are indeed liberals, so their criticism is bewildering.
Charlie’s criticism really stands out in this respect.