A 2026-os költségvetés-elemzésből
950 million Ft in scholarships defined by religious identity — allocated by a state office.
A state scholarship programme whose eligibility criterion is the recipient's faith, administered through a government ministry and funded by every taxpayer regardless of their own beliefs.
Roughly 237 Ft per taxpayer per year — 950 million Ft in scholarships awarded on the basis of religious identity, from the general tax pool.
Amit látsz — és amit nem
The seen: the young Christian scholarship recipient. The unseen: every taxpayer of a different faith, or no faith, who funds a scholarship programme whose selection criterion excludes them.
Ellenvetés
"Religious communities deserve state support too — secular scholarship programmes already exist for others."
Válasz
Faith communities have sustained scholarship support for their members throughout their history, financed by their own members through church collection and endowment. That is the natural channel for faith-defined giving. A state scholarship defined by religious identity uses general taxation — which includes citizens of every faith and none — to fund a selection criterion that most of those taxpayers had no say in choosing. Faith-based scholarships remain available; the financing channel moves to the communities that value and define them.
Share if you think scholarship programmes defined by religious identity should be funded by the faith communities that create them, not by all taxpayers.
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Az elemző indoklása jelenleg angol nyelven elérhető; magyar fordítás folyamatban.
Indoklás
A scholarship programme defined by the religious identity of its recipients is a discretionary transfer in which a political officeholder selects beneficiaries by a subjective criterion. Education support, like humanitarian giving, is a category that voluntary mechanisms — church scholarships, denominational funds, charitable foundations — fund directly and well; faith communities have organised exactly this kind of scholarship support throughout their history, financed by their own members. There is no reliance interest justifying a phase-out at the programme level: a discretionary annual scholarship line creates no contractual entitlement, and where individual students hold mid-degree commitments those can be honoured as a small residual within the receiving institutions. The line can be closed in the 2026 cycle, with the activity returning to the voluntary religious and charitable channel that is its natural home.
Átállási mechanizmus
End the appropriation in 2026. Honour any individual mid-degree commitments as a residual; new awards migrate to church and charitable scholarship funds.
Érintett csoportok
Prospective recipients; faith-based scholarship funds, which become the financing channel.
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