Halachah gives Jewish communal authorities the responsibility of levying taxes for education, public works, and care for the poor. Ayn Rand would of course be horrified, but she was an atheist hedonist. There have unfortunately been sinful Jews who think their money is theirs and not HaShem’s. Another example is the wealthy Jews of Prague who mosered Rabbi Yom Tov Lipman Heller to the gentile authorities when he instituted what would now be called a Progressive Tax where the wealthy paid more. I am appalled that so many supposedly frum Jews would favor the policies of Ayn Rand over those of the author of the Tosafos Yom Tov.
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