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From: barry levine
Date: Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 10:44 AM
Subject: re: Some Israelis Question Benefits for Ultra-Religious
To: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor:
From: barry levine
Date: Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 10:44 AM
Subject: re: Some Israelis Question Benefits for Ultra-Religious
To: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor:
Rabbi Ansellem--like Adam Smith--has grasped what David ben-Gurion did not. The incentives are the system. An open-ended guarantee of money to those who don't work stimulates an endless stream of those not working. Ben-Gurion felt he could afford to pension off 400 scholars of what he thought was the last generation of haredim. Israel today needs a workforce like any other developed nation.
Barry Levine
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