Joseph

Child tax credits are one thing. The same credit is offered to a couple making a quarter of a million a year as a couple making $40,000 a year. It is tax law as much as paying the income tax rate. But, on the other hand, the Earned Income Tax Credit is akin to welfare as someone who has a zero tax rate, and pays not a dime in taxes, is entitled to receive a check from the government via the EITC with his tax return. Same principal applies to government college aid. If someone is demanding that others not accept welfare they are legally entitled to accept, they themselves ought to forgo claiming the EITC or a PELL grant.

That being said, it isn’t contradictory for the same person to oppose government laws offering food stamps, welfare, WIC and Section 8 at the generous levels it is offered, and yet at the same time take advantage of those very laws he wishes to abolish by accepting those very entitlement programs at levels he opposes its existence. As long as its the law of the land and on the books he is fully legally and morally entitled to accept what’s offered, and what he and his family and friends are forced to pay taxes for. At the same time he advocates for its abolishment (from being so generous.)

akuperma makes a good point. Those opposed to people accepting legally entitled Section 8, food stamps, welfare, etc., should be just as opposed to accepting government PELL grants to pay for college, a subsidized subway system such as in NYC, the Earned Income Tax credit, etc.

Do those opposed to others accepting WIC themselves refuse to apply for PELL, don’t fill out for a EIC on their tax return, etc.?

Dorming is most certainly different than not dorming, any way, any how.

They should go to local seminary, not seminary in Israel.

Or get married out of 12th grade.

Avi, the Rambam defines a working baal haboss as someone who works three hours a day and learns Torah eight hours a day.

In three days.

Newbee: You have no answer to my last question?

It was deleted for being too blunt on a public website.

Newbee: Please explain the Mishna in Horios 3:7, the Rambam on that Mishna, and Shulchan Aruch Yoreh Deah 252:8.

There is no other Yiddish word for black other than shvartz. It’s simply the word for that color just as roit means red.

Engineers that you ask about are not notorious for having outrageous hours.

oomis: The Yeshivish shidduch system is much closer to the Chasidish shidduch system (as different as they may be) than to the MO dating system, that you oh so strongly advocate, if you must do a comparison between the three.

And both the Chasidish couples and the yeshivish couples most certainly are ready for marriage. It is the MO couples who are long overdue and way past the time they should have gotten married, by time they do.

And if she’ll likely drown herself if she goes in to pull him?

MsP: You went from eighth grade straight to college?

sdd, you’ve been to seminary?

Within the past 10-12 years or so.

That they’re not chasidish.

Even if you could afford a new wardrobe every season!

DY: Try googling my line now with quotes around them. (It entered the search results 17 minutes after I posted it.)

Why can’t girls wear the same style clothing this winter as they did last winter, or this summer same as a year before?

Davening heals cancer.

The clothing in the frum market changes every year?