SPEW! (special for Tolik
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The army is not protecting those who learn Torah, it is the other way around. Rav Kook himself wrote that one who sits and learns Torah is doing more for the state than one who joins the army and fights.
Haredi participation in the workplace in Israel is much higher than some of you think. I personally paid the gov. direct taxes in the last 12 months over 45 thousand shekel. I get 340 shekel Kollel stipend, we pay bituach leumi double and we get 840 shekel children's allowance, which is in lieu of dependant deductible on income tax,
If you want to know what sharing the burden means, read the back of the 200 shekel bill.
It is a joke to call Haredim mooching off the gov and not working. Almost all Kollel wives work and many avreichim do too. You have a problem that they are not like you? They should live to work and work to live?!? They follow Rav Kook that Hashem gave us the Torah to live and to learn, if they choose to learn more and earn less, that is beautiful! If you want to go to the army and serve, kol hakovode!! Any Haredi can do that too, though even DL Rabbis agree that the army is not the right place for haredis. The new law is not helping anyone go to the army. Spew!
The gov. spends enormous amounts of money on theaters etc. You have no musag. Notice the recent campaign Jerusalem ihr hasratim? Hashem Yishmore!