Reply To: How about you support your own blazed rebbeim

1) It’s cheaper this way because the extra “salary” is only paid to blazed rebbeim with kids. Your way, it’s higher salaries across the board.

Actually, you can just include a tuition payment in your salary package. In fact, if you do that, the tuition payment part will be pre-tax.

2) Mah nafshach, if you value kollel, you’re happy that the adkanim opened a kollel and will help. If you don’t value kollel (ch’v), you won’t subsidize any kollel learners.

This isn’t about valuing. It’s about that there is somebody else who actually has a responsibility for it, but is shirking that.

VM: That’s a fair point, and I wanted to think about it. I think the difference to me is that I don’t think people should be considering money as a factor in having kids (as I have argued on this board before http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/having-children-without-money).

But, it does make sense to me that a community should be considering whether it can afford to make a new school when it makes a new school. However, the community is not fully considering that because it is externalizing some of the cost of the new school to “the other school”–when in fact, all that cost must be collectively borne by the community.