Calculating the defense budget
In the discussion about the Haredi society, the following debate arose: There was agreement that in terms of justice, if the Haredi population is, say, 15% of the population, then the state budget should be looked at and verified that the Haredi population is responsible for 15% of the state’s income. However, if the budget for health, transportation, education, etc. is a service provided to every citizen, and every citizen who uses health, education, and transportation is actually taking from the resource and has a meaning for every citizen of any age, then in the defense budget, a debate arose about whether it says “defense for one, defense for a hundred” (let’s assume that there is no debate about this, and from a security perspective, this is indeed the case) and there is no meaning for every person, and therefore we should look at it in terms of a household, and like in a residential building, where the payment of the house committee is based on each household, regardless of the size of each family or the number of witnesses, and we should look at it per person. I wanted to ask the rabbi
A. How do we approach such a discussion?
B. What is the Rabbi’s opinion?
thanks!
I didn’t understand the question. Security expenses are supposed to be divided among citizens like any other expense. A candle for one, a candle for a hundred is nonsense in such a context. Any citizen can say a candle for one, a candle for a hundred and not pay.
A candle for one candle for a hundred certainly cannot stand as a claim to be freed from payment. But it can indicate that the essence of the payment for security expenses is not per capita but the result of a civic obligation and therefore it can be said that children do not yet have a civic obligation and therefore the payment demand is submitted only for an adult. In contrast to the situation in which the child, although he does not have a civic obligation, has a cost of use, i.e. the use of transportation. In health in education which requires payment due to the very use of a limited resource.
If the children have no civic obligation, then the parent has a great obligation, as the children say. One needs to think about how they would make an agreement when they come in advance to join the state.
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