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ROB,
I gave you my choice- be free to learn and avoid the army but dispense with the financing.
That choice is not currently available. The chareidi yeshiva bochur/yungerman is, for all intents and purpose, barred from anything else other than full time enrollment in yeshiva because the army is spiritually toxic, and he can’t work without having served.
What you are essentially saying is, “I won’t allow you to earn money, and I won’t support you”. You can’t have it both ways.
You also are in stark disagreement with the gedolei Yisroel who consider the large number of yeshivaleit learning today to be a great z’chus which protects the whole tzibbur, and that learning is certainly worthy of financial support either way.