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Phil, that’s factually incorrect. Chareidim receive far less higher education shekels proportion to both their population and in proportion to their taxes than the seculars who receive far far higher government subsidies per student at their universities than the frum receive per student for kollel. That university students receive far more than kollel students is easily verifiable information from Israeli government data and laws.
But lets put aside your mistaken facts and assume you had been correct that Chareidim get more in proportion to the taxes they pay. You could say the exact same point about the poor. The poor receive far more government subsidies in proportion to the taxes they pay than the middle class do. So Phil’s “solution” to that “problem” would be to take away government subsidies to the poor, things like food for children, housing assistance, etc., in order to make it “fairer” to the middle class who don’t receive as much government monetary assistance; especially in proportion to taxes paid, as the middle class pay more tax shekels than the poor pay in taxes.
Great point, Phil. Not to even broach the additional subject of your complete and utter ignoring what Torah learners, especially those who learn Torah full time, do to support and protect Israel and the Jews. Any one of they do far far more in one day than any university student does in four years at college.