Is there anyone here that is even trying to be a drop objective.
Do you have any idea what the Tax Burden on an Isreai Worker is?
A non-worker pays a huge VAT tax.
A tax that would get even Democrats to vote Republican if Obama said he wanted to implement it.
On top of that there is a myriad of other taxes.
If Shraga18 works he’s gotta pay them (or his boss pays them for him) all of them.
On top of that the price of food in Isreal is more expensive then in the US (and a godd part of the reason is what again the Government)!
And Shraga 18 is supposed to have looked at the measly pittance he got back in the form of child support as a gift?
Are you nuts?
How about the Isreali Government stop funding the theaters in Tel Aviv to the tune of 40%, stop funding every liberal stupidity that ir-religous liberal Jews feel compelled to fund then lower their ridicuous VAT taxes to say 5% instead of the 18% (somewhere around there thats what it is now) and we’ll call it even.
The Government can keep thier child checks and my family can actually afford to buy food.
And yeah, VAT has to be payed by everybody including Chareidim who actually pay more of it becuase they buy more food since the large families eat more then 1-2 kids and a puppy.
So when some Tzedaka orginization gives you some money to buy basic groceries for kids to eat, close to 20% of that goes back to the government.
( But of course I would’nt be surprised if Lipman and Lapid decided to pass an exemption on dog and cat food as a measure to curb tzar balei chayim right after lipman finishes with his duck bill to protect the ducks)